»ifs-Begegnung« Edimotion mit Editorin Anne Fabini und »Außer Atem«

"ifs Encounter" Edimotion with editor Anne Fabini and "Out of Breath"

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | 7 pm
Free admission

Filmforum NRW | Cinema at the Museum Ludwig
Bischofsgartenstr. 1 | 50667 Cologne

On the big screen:

"Out of Breath"
(FRA 1960, 87 min., OmU, original title: "À bout de souffle", feature film, with Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo, director: Jean-Luc Godard, editor: Cécile Decugis)

Followed by a film discussion with editor Anne Fabini,
moderated by Dietmar Kraus (curator at the Edimotion film festival)

In the "ifs Encounter Edimotion" series, we ask editors about their personal favorite films, whose outstanding editing they would like to present.

While writing his later cult film "À bout de souffle", Jean-Luc Godard said: "Roughly speaking, it's about a boy who thinks about death and a girl who doesn't." From these simple "boy meets girl" ingredients, enriched with references to gangster films and "B-movies" of American film noir, Godard, together with cinematographer Raoul Coutard and film editor Cécile Decugis, created one of the most important films of the French "Nouvelle Vague".

The combination of handheld camera, natural surroundings and an elliptical, rough editing style with many jump cuts became a style-defining feature for generations of filmmakers. Our guest, the multi-award-winning editor Anne Fabini, chose this classic for our film discussion because its radical breaks with the design and viewing habits of the time are a constant source of inspiration for her own editing work: "Long before I even considered becoming a film editor, the film "Out of Breath" had captured my heart with its untamed editing style. The editing is so present in the story that it almost becomes another protagonist alongside the crook Michel and the student Patricia. It can't be overlooked, it doesn't remain invisible - it confidently manifests what Jean-Luc Godard sees it as: the heartbeat of the film."

Anne Fabini is one of the most renowned film editors in Germany and is increasingly in demand internationally. She grew up in Transylvania, Romania, emigrated to Germany in the early 1990s and studied theater, film and television studies at the Free University of Berlin. Her first feature film as an editor, "Berlin is in Germany", won the Audience Award at the 2001 Berlinale - the start of a career that has since spanned more than 40 long documentaries and feature films. She has been nominated for the German Film Award four times and won it in 2019 for "Of Fathers and Sons - The Children of the Caliphate". She has also been nominated three times at Edimotion and won the German Film Critics' Award for "Houston" in 2014, among others. She was head of the editing section on the board of the German Film Academy from 2019 to 2021. She is also a member of the European Film Academy and the Oscar Academy AMPAS.

An event by Edimotion - Festival for Film Editing and Montage Art
in cooperation with the ifs International Film School Cologne, as part of the Filmforum NRW e.V.
With the kind support of the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.