ScreeningSarah Morris "1972"
Film screening
The film screening takes place in the AudimaxX auditorium of the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF).
Address: Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1, 80333 Munich
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The film screening takes place in the AudimaxX auditorium of the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF).
Address: Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1, 80333 Munich
All events
On occasion of this year's anniversary of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the Lenbachhaus and the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) shows the artist Sarah Morris's film "1972", which premiered in 2008. The film grapples with the attack on the Israeli sports team during the 1972 Summer Games, combining images of the Olympic site and its surroundings with archival police footage from the events. At its center stands an intimate interview with Dr. Georg Sieber, the chief psychologist of the Olympic security service at the time. The work is not so much a documentary that attempts to present an objective reality of the tragedy of the Munich hostage crisi as rather an open-ended inquiry that lets the viewers visually experience the complex layers of possible and alternative truths of a very specific case in our history. A sensitive visual language places the relationship of power, responsibility, and control and the interplay of predictions, planning, and eventual occurrence of the subject matter.
Sarah Morris (* 1967) is known for her large-scale diagrammatic paintings. She lives and works in New York. The film is part of the Lenbachhaus's collection and was made in close collaboration with the artist.
Duration of the film: 38 minutes
