Special Guest:
Stefan Drößler (Film Museum Munich)
Key Note Speaker:
Gertrud Koch (Freie Universität Berlin)
Conference Director:
Roy Grundmann
Conference Manager:
Colin Root (colin.root@gmail.com)
Schedule:
Thursday, September 27:
- 6:30pm: Conference Welcome
- Detlef Gericke-Schoenhagen, Director, Goethe-Institut Boston
- Thomas Fiedler, Dean, BU College of Communication
- Paul Schneider, Chair, BU Department of Film and Television
- Roy Grundmann, Conference Director
- 7:00pm: Special Presentation
"Werner Schroeter: The First Films"
- Stefan Drößler (Film Museum Munich)
- 8:30pm: General Reception
Friday, September 28:
- 10:00am:"'Leaping and Lingering:' Narrative Structure in
Werner Schroeter's Willow Springs"
- Christine N. Brinckmann (Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich)
- 11:00am: "Werner Schroeter's Italian Journeys"
- Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College)
- 12:00pm: Lunch Break (Lunch provided for panelists only)
- 1:30pm: "Firewater: Jelinek, Schroeter, and the God-Author of Malina"
- Fatima Naqvi (Rutgers University)
- 2:30pm: Screening Select Interviews with Werner Schroeter
- 3:30pm: "The Last Film Noir: Border Crossings in Diese Nacht"
- Edward Dimendberg (University of California, Irvine)
- 4:30pm: Coffee Break
- 5:00pm: Keynote Address
"Filmic and Operatic Gestures in Schroeter's Films"
- Gertrud Koch (Free University, Berlin)
Saturday, September 29:
- 9:30am: "Byproducts of Love: Werner Schroeter's Ethos of Co-creation"
- Roy Grundmann (Boston University)
- 10:30am: "Life is very precious—even right now: Werner Schroeter's late style"
- Michelle Langford (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
- 11:30am: Short Break
- 11:45am: Closing Roundtable
- Chaired by Eric Rentschler (Harvard University)
- John Gianvito (Emerson College)
- Charles Warren (Boston University)
- James Quandt (Toronto International Film Festival)
- Ken Eisenstein (Mount Holyoke College)
Special Guest:
Stefan Drößler (Film Museum Munich)
Key Note Speaker:
Gertrud Koch (Freie Universität Berlin)
Participants:
- Christine Noll Brinckmann (Prof. Emeritus, University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Edward Dimendberg (University of California, Irvine)
- Ken Eisenstein (Mount Holyoke College)
- Gerd Gemünden (Dartmouth College)
- John Gianvito (Emerson College)
- Roy Grundmann (Boston University)
- Michelle Langford (The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
- Fatima Naqvi (Rutgers University)
- James Quandt (TIFF Cinematheque)
- Eric Rentschler (Harvard University)
- Charles Warren (Boston University and Harvard University)