„A Trick of the Light“ in the presence of Wim Wenders for the occasion of Cinema’s 130th Anniversary
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
A few weeks ago, the 130th anniversary of the Skladanowsky Brothers‘ first film screening on 1 November 1895 in Berlin’s Wintergarten was celebrated. The film showed boxing kangaroos, acrobats and wrestlers; the very first original moving images were still heavily inspired by the circus and varieté shows. Even though Max and Emil Skladanowsky did not go down in history as the actual inventors of cinema – that honour was reserved for another pair of brothers, the Lumière Brothers, who were working in France at the same time – they were nevertheless important pioneers of moving images, which changed the world forever.
To conclude the anniversary year, we want to celebrate the achievements of the film pioneers Skladanowsky with a special cinema experience. We are showing the German premiere of the 4K restored version of Wim Wenders‘ film. French composer Laurent Petitgand, who has written the music for ten of Wenders‘ films, will accompany the film live with several instruments and vocals.
The event takes place in cooperation with the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut und Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, the Wim Wenders Stiftung, Düsseldorf/Berlin, as well as with the kind support of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation and the Bundesarchiv (The German Federal Archives).
Photo: Lucie Hürtgen-Skladanowsky, Florian Gallenberger, Barbara Rohm, Wim Wenders, German Kral and Jürgen Jürgens (from left) during the filming of Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky (A Trick of the Light) (1996) by Wim Wenders with students from the HFF Munich, Courtesy of the Wim Wenders Foundation, HFF Munich, Veit Helmer Film Production
