Edward Hopper und das Kino - Vortrag mit Kurzfilmen

In the "Film & Art" series, Cinema Quadrat and Kunsthalle Mannheim present a lecture with short films on Edward Hopper and his relationship to cinema:

Edward Hopper and the Cinema. Lecture with short films
Lecture, short films and pictures, approx. 140 min

Who doesn't know them, the silent night figures in front of their drinks in a bar? The painting "Nighthawks" by the American realist Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) is one of the icons of the 20th century and has been reproduced countless times. The painter's view of a fast-food restaurant at night, an abandoned house in the dunes or a figure in a hotel room still provides an occasion for lively cinematic debate. Directors such as Terence Davies, Alfred Hitchcock, Aki Kaurismäki, Herbert Ross and Wim Wenders have quoted his paintings and recreated them in set designs for their own films. In fact, many of his paintings look like film stills and tell their own stories that could have come from 20th century cinema. Dr. Peter Bär talks about Edward Hopper's work and its cinematic reception history and presents short films (some in the original English version) that develop stories from Hopper's paintings, recreate his mood or for which Hopper's paintings were style-defining. Images and film excerpts will also be used to show how Hopper has had a formative influence in the fields of graphics, photography and pop culture right up to the present day.
A painting by Edward Hopper will also be on display in the current Kunsthalle exhibition "The New Objectivity"; the Hopper evening is part of the program accompanying the exhibition.
Introduction: Dr. Peter Bär, Cinema Quadrat