In the organizer's words:

The Duisburg Film Week is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and is marking the occasion with film programs and collaborations throughout the year ahead of the 50th edition of the festival, which will take place in Duisburg from 2 to 8 November 2026.

Around the symposium "WORK IN PROGRESS. Representations of Work in Documentary Film" of the documentary film initiative dfi, documentary films from the program archive of the Duisburg Film Week will be shown at the Filmhaus Köln. The programme complements the dfi symposium with encounters with initially "foreign" worlds of work, subtle rhythms of globalized work and reflections on work in the image.

Films:

Four episodes from CINÉMATOGRAPHE LUMIÈRE - CINEMA 100 YEARS AGO (Martina Müller, DE 1995 / ca. 40′)

The individual parts of CINÉMATOGRAPHE LUMIÈRE are each around 10 minutes long and were first broadcast between March 20 and April 3, 1995, on the third program of WDR (which at the time was called West German Television). Taken together, they bring together almost 70 Lumière "views", many of them almost in their original length (approx. 50 seconds). These views are flanked by numerous pictorial sources from the end of the 19th century, paintings and engravings, posters and newspaper titles, book illustrations and, of course, photographs. They are thus embedded in the larger context of contemporary image production, which also marks early cinematography as an emergence of the new age. It becomes a feature of an electrified mass culture, for which the socio-economic developments and technical inventions that preceded it paved the way.

(Stefan Pethke: "Cinématographe Lumière - Cinema 100 years ago". Cinema's birthday on television)

4 episodes will be shown.

THE CINEMA AND THE WIND AND PHOTOGRAPHY (Hartmut Bitomsky, DE 1991 / 56′)

... a film about films and that means about the reality of films and the theories about them. It is a look into a workshop where work is in progress. The editing situation, the work on the project, is integrated into the film. There is no commentary, but rather a way of talking about films that deals with ideas and quotations and in doing so directly confronts the film excerpts: Cinema is examined by its own means. This investigation is not intended to be systematic, it is more a kind of poaching, a joyful science in which the important is allowed to stand alongside the marginal and the concept is in the incidental. What comes out of it offers no solutions to problems and no equations (for example: Documentary film is reality times cinematic art divided by critical awareness ...). What emerges is cinematic enthusiasm. (Hartmut Bitomsky)

Followed by a discussion with Martina Müller.

Price information:

Tickets at the box office