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the film tips for Thursday, July 8

Three to see

WHY ARE WE (NOT) CREATIVE?

 

In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and thinkers, among them artist Marina Abramović, author T. C. Boyle, and climate activist Luisa Neubauer, about things that kill their creativity. He notes that assassins lurk everywhere, be they in the form of money, fear, censorship, or bureaucracy. Ironically, however, these things can also foster creativity. Today in particular, the Anthropocene period threatens our very survival. This existential threat keeps us exploring new ideas. Creativity may be under threat, but it is often this very threat that drives it. In dialectically synthesizing opposites, Vaske is surprised to find that some reasons for a lack of creativity are themselves particularly creative.

WHY ARE WE (NOT) CREATIVE?:  July 8, 9:15 p.m., POPUP SOMMERKINO powered by M-net & July 9, 7 p.m., Gasteig, Carl-Orff-Saal.

TOVE

 

“That’s not art!” is the scathing verdict young Tove Jansson hears from her father, in whose shadow she always imagines herself. She’s already an established illustrator by this time, near the end of World War II, but she doesn’t really believe she is taken seriously as an artist. In retrospect, one almost has to chuckle about the fact that her sketches were hastily dismissed as “doodling”, because shortly thereafter, her children’s book “The Moomins and the Great Flood” would lay the foundation of her worldwide success as an illustrator and author. Jansson deliberately defied the societal and artistic conventions of her day, not least by embracing her own bisexuality as a matter of course. Her success ultimately proved her right, because generations of people all over the world love the Moomins — and adore their creator.

TOVE: July 7, 7 p.m. Gasteig, Carl-Orff-Saal & July 8, 5 p.m., Kino am Olympiasee.

THE SHADOW HOUR

 

Christian writer, journalist, and poet Jochen Klepper (born in 1903) lives with his Jewish wife and his stepdaughter, who is also Jewish, in Germany during the Third Reich. He is one of the most significant hymnists of the 20th century, but that doesn’t shield him from an existential conflict with the National Socialist system. In late 1942, his wife and stepdaughter are refused permission to leave the country, and their deportation to a concentration camp appears imminent. When Adolf Eichmann forces him to choose between his career and his marriage, Klepper makes an unheard-of decision: a decision that thousands of Germans in mixed marriages made with him. So quietly that even today only a few have heard of it.

THE SHADOW HOUR: July 7, 9:15 p.m., Sugar Mountan & July 8, 4 p.m., Gloria Palast.

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