Entitled "Settings - Locations - Scenes. Production Design & Film," the Retrospective of the
55th Berlin International Film Festival (February 10 - 20, 2005) will be dedicated to the profession and impact of production design.
"Production designers are much more than just set builders," says Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick on the Festival's revamped Web site. "'They are genuine artists who substantially influence the overall appearance of a film. At first glance the effects are often not evident, yet their work is of utmost importance for communicating dramatic action.' Production designers supply the visual key for the mood and story of a film. They bring out individual emotions and social conditions as well as accentuate what is mysterious or menacing."
In other Berlinale news, "In 2005, the Festival will present part 2 of the
series of films from the U.S.A.'s recovery program for Europe following World War II. (Organized by IFP founder Sandra Schulberg with Richard Rena from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Part 1 premiered earlier this year at the Berlinale and was reprised at the 2004 New York Film Festival.) "Conceived to run for a total of three years, the series will continue during the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005 and again in 2006." At the 55th Berlinale...
Selling Democracy - Welcome Mr. Marshall will feature "works from the early post-war years, including so-called re-orientation films, are to be screened under the heading
Selling Democracy - Winning the Peace. The programme will be augmented by feature films from the period that depict Europe's upheaval. In 2006, the project will close with
Selling Democracy - Friendly Persuasion. The final series is to focus on how Europe changed as a result of modernization, mechanization and its emulation of 'the American way of life'."
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posted by Steve Gallagher @ 11/17/2004 10:44:00 AM
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