In Berlin, November is the month when it feels like there are only three hours of light a day, but you haven’t yet been able to eat all the gingerbread you can find. In other words, the best conditions for spending time with movies on your own sofa. For all those who are as bored as I am with the offerings of the usual streaming services, Deutsche Kinemathek has been providing a remedy for some time now. The curated online program, Kinemathek “Selects“, is sorted by theme and regularly presents a small but fine selection from its own collection. Free to stream, in full length and quality. And what a collection it is! Cinema meets art and vice versa. After thematic blocks such as “A Long Hot Summer” and “Female Perspectives”, the current curation of the sixth edition is dedicated entirely to a look behind the scenes of filmmaking to mark the 60th anniversary of the Kinemathek institution. Cinema on Cinema: camera, editing, extras. Nine works by greats such as Harun Farocki, Ulrich Schamoni and Thomas Brasch suck you off the couch and straight into the fantastic fictional world of film. All films are available online until January 14. And will then certainly be replaced by a new, equally worthwhile edition.
Text: Hilka Dirks / Credit: Deutsche Kinemathek; DEFA-Stiftung & Horst Bluemel
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