Saturday, July 20, 2024 // 10 pm // Blauer Salon // Room 012 // HfG Karlsruhe

To kick off the big party, which is the dubious highlight of the annual exhibition of the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung every year, the Blauer Salon offers the unique opportunity to prepare for it in a cultivated and controlled manner. With probably the most blatant VHS experience of the academic year: the most blatant HfG party of all time, so the legend goes, was accidentally captured for posterity in a 40-minute home video by an unknown amateur filmmaker in 1996. However, the VHS was forgotten in a VHS player and when it went into the attic, all hope of ever finding it again was lost and the video was gradually forgotten.

The film will be shown as part of the annual exhibition of the HfG Karlsruhe, where HfG students will be presenting their work from July 18 to 21.

DE 1996, 40 minutes, VHS, original version, Director: Unknown amateur filmmaker With Heinrich Klotz, Dieter Sellin, Wilfried Walther and others. Preliminary program: "Das ABC der HfG", Germany 1994, 10 minutes, VHS, HfG Karlsruhe

Free admission, donation requested

Kino im Blauen Salon is the student cinema of the Hochschule für Gestaltung, which has been run by students since 2017. We have also recently become our own association! From the design of this flyer to the program design and scheduling to the film screening itself, we have been working here on a voluntary basis since February. And all the other many tasks that come with running a movie theater.

We are not a soulless blockbuster cinema, everything is handmade again, because we play most evenings from classic 35mm film reels. To this end, we have resurrected two beautiful analog film projectors from the 1950s over the last few years. In addition to the film series The Cinema of Euphoria, there will also be many special screenings, collaborations and, for the first time, a concert evening this semester.