DORE 0. ON-SITE PROGRAMME

Painter and photographer by training, Dore O. founded the Hamburger Filmschau alongside her husband and collaborator Werner Nekes, becoming one of the pioneers of European experimental film in the 1960s. Her first works, infused with the psychedelia of the sixties, followed during the early seventies by an uncompromising and formally rigorous work: rear-projections, over-impositions, repetition of frames, and snatching hand-held shots, which seem at the same time to be the result of primitive impulses and a calculated manipulation of the picture's framing and tempo. Playful and irredeemable visual poetry to let yourself be carried away to the last consequences, from ecstasy to terror.

In her films, landscapes, rooms and faces are merged to form complex lyrical compositions full of beauty and strength that we can finally contemplate in all its magnitude thanks to the new restorations carried out by the Deutsche Kinemathek. A legacy that until now has been insufficiently disseminated due to the deterioration of the existing copies of her films, yet arriving at the right time to rewrite the history of experimental cinema, still with many debts pending.

The German programmer and restorer Masha Matzke, who has been working for years on the preservation of Dore O.'s work, and is preparing a monographic book about it, will guide us through this spotlight on an essential European creator.