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The World according to Film

Film and reality - what a great and challenging topic! But it all started as a fairground attraction: when the pictures learned to walk, people were amused by their own movements, but startled when a steam locomotive entered the station and came close to them on the screen (as with the Lumière brothers). Film was soon understood more and more consciously as a medium that depicted not only our external reality, but also our personal and social sensitivities. Film theory showed the way to a complex understanding of reality, while film in turn began to reflect on the world. Important film directors* philosophise about the world and its order, but also about its disorder. This is what filmic narration can basically achieve: It makes us see, discover and understand "the world" and our existence with new eyes. Our collection includes examples of an "art of reflection", a little philosophy of film, which is stimulating in this sense.

Film and reality - what a great and challenging topic!

But it all started as a fairground attraction: when the pictures learned to walk, people were amused by their own movements, but startled when a steam locomotive entered the station and came close to them on the screen (as with the Lumière brothers). Film was soon understood more and more consciously as a medium that depicted not only our external reality, but also our personal and social sensitivities. Film theory showed the way to a complex understanding of reality, while film in turn began to reflect on the world. Important film directors* philosophise about the world and its order, but also about its disorder.

This is what filmic narration can basically achieve: It makes us see, discover and understand "the world" and our existence with new eyes. Our collection includes examples of an "art of reflection", a little philosophy of film, which is stimulating in this sense.

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