Classics.Class
ROLE IMAGES AND QUEER REPRESENTATION IN THE CHANGE OF TIME: Starting with the cinema of the Weimar Republic, a project group from the IGS Nordend presents how the representation of gender identities in terms of content and aesthetics has developed over more than 100 years. At LUCAS, the »Classics.class« presents the comparison in the context of the screening of the Brazilian film ALICE JUNIOR, in which a transgender teenager brings new energy to her conservative school.
In reference to the current DFF special exhibition WEIMAR WEIBLICH. Women and Gender Diversity in Weimar Cinema (1918–1933), the group uses the early play with gender clichés in Ernst Lubitsch’s ICH MÖCHTE KEIN MANN SEIN (DE 1918). The visit to the special exhibition as well as the viewing of the film in the DFF cinema provides the basis for outlining changes to modern cinema in accompanying workshop units. Composed of the project courses “Rex-TV” and “Theatre” from Years 9 and 10, the students of the IGS Nordend combine different focal points. While the theatre group focuses on scripts and acting, the participants in the school television project “Rex-TV” bring media competence and an eye for cinematic production. The “Klassiker.Klasse” will present their results after the cinema screening of ALICE JUNIOR (BR 2019. D: Gil Baroni). Visits to the screenings of both films at the DFF cinema are open to the public and can be booked.
