TY - BOOK AU - Roy,Rajendra AU - Leweke,Anke AU - Arslan,Thomas AU - Grisebach,Valeska AU - Heisenberg,Benjamin AU - Hochhäusler,Christoph AU - Hoss,Nina AU - Lim,Dennis AU - Nicodemus,Katja AU - Petzold,Christian AU - Rother,Rainer AU - Stockman,Russell ED - Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) TI - The Berlin school: films from the Berliner schule SN - 0870708740 AV - PN 1993.5 R888b 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - The Museum of Modern Art KW - Motion pictures KW - Germany KW - Berlin KW - 20th century KW - Motion picture authorship KW - Cinéma KW - Allemagne KW - 20e siècle KW - Art d'écrire KW - Cine alemán KW - Siglo XX KW - Temas, motivos N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Introduction / Rajendra Roy -- The beginning / Anke Leweke -- On whose shoulders: the question of aesthetic indebtedness / Christoph Hochhäusler -- French Cancan in the DDR: an exchange with Christian Petzold / Anke Leweke -- Women's lab: the female protaganist in ther Berlin School / Rajendra Roy -- No solutions, only questions: an encounter with Nina Hoss / Rainer Rother -- The view from here / Valeska Grisebach -- On the move: Thomas Arslan's Kinetic Cinema / Katja Nicodermus -- The cinema of life / Thomas Arlsan -- Moving on: the next new wave / Dennis Lim -- Form follows / Benjamin Heisenberg N2 - "The informal movement that critics like to call the Berlin School," as director Christoph Hochhäusler puts it, is a loose affiliation of filmmakers who emerged around the time the Berlin Wall fell. The founding figures--Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, and Angela Schanelec--and their younger colleagues are not bound by a manifesto or by any singular aesthetic. Nonetheless, their observant portrayals of characters in flux offer a compelling cinematic expression of the search for new identities in a time of societal change. The films of the Berlin School have resonated profoundly since the mid-1990s, making it one of the most influential auteur movements to emerge from Europe in the new millennium ER -