Film society

A film club (or film club ) is an association that organizes the exhibition of films without commercial intentions. Otherwise hardly to be seen movies or specifically avant-garde films are often shown. The ideal is often seen the opportunity to discuss the films with the directors. The first film societies were founded by enthusiasts, some of whom later were famous directors.

The International Federation of Film Clubs ( International Federation of Film Societies ) was founded in 1947 in Cannes.

Activity

A film club is usually established to discuss about film and movies. Sometimes it is an association of moviegoers who simply presenting itself at an agreed date in a movie theater to see together there a movie, much more frequently initiated but the film club the showing of a certain movie. This can be done in collaboration with a cinema operator, but often has the film club access at your own display equipment.

Film clubs are found for example in the field of youth work, adult education, universities or religious communities. A film club at universities is generally referred to as Unikino.

The aim of the program work in film clubs is to convey or to use movies as an information source not only information about the history, techniques and content of the medium. About the sensual experience of seeing them convey ideally the audience a view of the many possibilities of the medium, so not much is in the selection of films, which can be seen in movie theaters and on television.

History

Germany

The first film club originated in Germany after 1945, originally at the suggestion of the British and French occupation forces who launched such associations after his home model in order to promote non-political cultural exchange and democratic awareness. Until the 1950s, the heyday of the film club movement, there was a wave of start-ups, even in the Soviet zone of occupation and later East Germany. The film clubs were either independent associations or worked under a carrier who had education and culture prescribed. Important impulses for the German film industry went out, for example, the creation of film festivals such as the International Film Festival Mannheim -Heidelberg. In the Federal Republic the number of film clubs took off, as on television and in the cinemas increasingly more challenging films and film classics were seen. As a result, in 1971 the umbrella organization Association of German film clubs disbanded. Since the 70s, many places were communal movie theaters in the place of film clubs. Many municipal cinemas began as a predominantly volunteer -supported clubs, over time succeeded in many local cinemas, especially in larger cities to get a funding of cinema work by municipal and other state resources. This meant a professionalization of theater work by hiring full-time employees. Unlike the film clubs in these cinemas, a large part particularly the administrative work and play operation is therefore done by paid employees, volunteer work takes place in many local cinemas but in so-called program boards and Programmausschüßen who are responsible for the compilation of the film program, still instead.

With the end of the GDR, many East German film clubs lost the financial and organizational basis, even here some succeeded, the step of Community Cinema.

Finland

The first Finnish film club projections ( projection) was founded in 1934. The 'soul' of projections was the architect Alvar Aalto.

France

The Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo, who lived in Paris since 1921, founded the first film club. The director and film critic Louis Delluc founded after the First World War, one of the first film clubs in France and the major movie magazine Cinea. In 1930, Jean Vigo the first Film Club of Nice: Les Amis du Cinéma. 1935 Henri Langlois and Georges Franju founded to show old movies, a film club Cercle du cinéma '', from 1936, the Cinémathèque française emerged.

After the Second World War, the movement of the ciné - clubs took a new lease. 1945, the film club of Annecy was founded, which spawned the Aimationsfilmfestival. In 1948, André Bazin Jean -Charles Tacchella Doniol - Valcroze, Astruc, Claude Mauriac, René Clément, Pierre Kast, the avant-garde film club " Objectif 49 ", whose president was Jean Cocteau. This film club, which was to become the cradle of the Nouvelle Vague, organized the Festival du Film Maudit, held in Biarritz in 1949.

François Truffaut Bazin's involvement in the film club movement portrayed vividly: " In the early days of our friendship - it was around 1947 - I was lucky enough to accompany him to his Filmpäsentationen and observe how he first later in a Dominican monastery and two days the workers in a metal factory in the half hour between lunch and return to the workbenches two - act play Chaplin vorführte, where he knew both times to inspire his audience and all involve in the discussion. "

The first film club were admitted to the exclusively women, originated in the 70s in Toulouse.

In 2005, the Musée Dapper in Paris founded the first film club, which is entirely devoted to the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean and the African-American diaspora. The occasion is the 50 - year anniversary of the African cinema.

India

Satyajit Ray founded in 1947 the first Indian film club, the Calcutta Film Society.

Canada

Giraldeau Jacques and Jacques Parent founded the first film club in Quebec City at the Université de Montréal in 1948.

Mexico

Jean -François Revel, philosophy teacher at the Lycée français of Mexico 1950-1952, founded the first film society in Latin America.

Spain

Luis Bunuel founded the first film club 1928.

Tunisia

The first film society was founded in 1946 in Tunis Tunisia.

USA

Inspired by the film screenings, the Maya had Their organized, Amos Vogel founded together with his wife in 1947, the Cinema 16