LITFILMS 2024: The Literature Film Festival Münster takes place from September 20 – 29.
Rike Hoppse and Son Lewandowski will be “Artists in Residence”.
The Literature Film Festival Münster will take place for the third time from September 20 to 29, 2024, this year under the leitmotif “Change of Perspective”.
LITFILMS is the only festival in Germany dedicated to the complex field of tension between film and literature and offers both art forms a platform in a variety of ways. Cologne-based artists Son Lewandowski and Rike Hoppse won the competition for the three-month residency in Münster, having been selected from a total of 47 applicants.
During the residency, the two artists will develop a “literary-filmic-ethnographic-social experiment on failure” and document their work in a literary-filmic “journal of failure”: “We want to explore the question of which toxic narratives of non-functioning surround us and how these can be artistically broken up and retold,” say filmmaker Hoppse and writer Lewandowski about their project. To this end, they want to draw on an experimental research practice in which they observe themselves in situations of failure in socially playful experiments in private and public spaces.
Their work will be screened at the end of the residency as part of the festival – alongside many other program items such as literary adaptations, films about literature or literary creators and screenplay adaptations.
LITFILMS, which alternates annually with the Filmfestival Münster, is managed by Risna Olthuis and Carsten Happe. “We are delighted to be bringing literature and film together for the third time and showing how the two can merge and enrich each other,” says Happe. Olthuis adds: “We deliberately chose a change of perspective as this year’s leitmotif because every good film and literary experience broadens the horizon and provokes a change of perspective.”
Daniel Huhn, Managing Director of Filmwerkstatt Münster, is also looking forward to the festival: “In September, Germany’s literature and film scene will once again be looking to Münster, making LITFILMS an important part of the regional cultural scene. Creative artists from two disciplines, literature and film, will receive the attention and recognition they deserve – regardless of whether they are big names on the scene or newcomers.”
The full program will be announced at the end of August.
LITFILMS takes place in and around Münster. The venues include the Schloßtheater, the LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Kloster Bentlage Rheine and many more.
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