ACFNY SUPPORTED | ART OF THE REAL FESTIVAL: DIE GETRÄUMTEN

About the Festival

Art of the Real, an essential showcase for boundary-pushing nonfiction film, returns to the Film Society of Lincoln Center for its third edition April 8-21. Founded on the most expansive possible view of the documentary film, the series features an eclectic, globe-spanning host of discoveries by artists who are re-envisioning the relationship between cinema and reality.

The Dreamed Ones / Die Geträumten

Ruth Beckermann
Austria, 2016, 89m
German with English subtitles

About the Artist

Ruth Beckermann’s unconventional record of a tragic love story surveys its prospects and impossibilities in the wake of World War II. Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan, two key German-language poets, exchanged letters from 1948 to 1967, and Beckermann presents this remarkable correspondence before the camera with two young, attractive actors (Anja Plaschg and Laurence Rupp) reading them at a studio in Vienna’s Funkhaus. Plaschg and Rupp expose the complexities and emotions beneath the lovers’ words through their speech and expressions, both in and out of character, as Beckermann captures them on cigarette breaks, commenting on the text, peering in on orchestral rehearsals, or listening to music on an iPhone. As much a retelling of a doomed romance as an exploration of the reverberating effects of a global tragedy, The Dreamed Ones is a minimalist tour de force, as emotionally wrenching as it is elegantly precise. North American Premiere

The screening is followed by a Q&A with director Ruth Beckermann.

http://www.ruthbeckermann.com/

http://www.filmlinc.org/daily/art-of-the-real-lineup-2016/

VENUE
Film Society Lincoln Center
165 W. 65th Street
(north side, upper level)

More information on tickets here.