Films by Eick Hoemann

Germany 2023, 81 min
by Livia Theuer

DAS KINO SIND WIR tells the story of cinema as social sculpture using the example of the Filmladen Kassel. In the early 1980s ten young film freaks started as a grassroots initiative – to change the world with (political) film art, increasingly by women too, to intervene in the social discussion, to make it more open, more equal and greener. Four decades later commercialisation, the digital revolution and the pandemic have changed cinema. In a collage of film clips, interviews and archive materi

Italy, Germany 2021, 63 min
by Alessandro Melazzini

Italo Disco. The sparkling sound of the 80s immerses the audience in a musical universe of an era.An era where millions of young Europeans would let loose to a wild beat of music made with synthetic and captivating melodies, more or less weird English lyrics, electronic rhythms and visionary music videos.They were cybernetic tracks fueled by hopes and dreams of the young musicians, who were capable of releasing mind-blowing pop, and always moving between trash and brilliance.It was the world of