20th anniversary: Student "Programmkino Lichtblick e.V." celebrates anniversary with "Projected Paradise: Why we go to the cinema".

Since 2003, students at Paderborn University have made it their mission to give films excluded from commercial cinema a presence and recognition and thus keep film history alive. With its 20th anniversary programme, the "Programmkino Lichtblick e.V." addresses the question of why we actually go to the cinema. Is it the darkness in the auditorium? The collective experience of watching? The size of the screen? And which films are it that only come into their own here? In the past two decades, the "Programmkino Lichtblick" has already offered a variety of answers to this question.

The anniversary programme begins on Tuesday, 10 October, at 8.30 p.m. with an analogue projection of the 1933 classic "King Kong", which, like the other films in the series, will be shown at Pollux (Westernstraße 34, 33098 Paderborn). Tickets are available via the website or at the box office. The "Programmkino Lichtblick" is once again part of the AStA Kulturticket, so that at least 30 free tickets per film are available for students of Paderborn University. All dates and information on the programme "Projected Paradise: Why we go to the cinema" can be found on the website of the "Programmkino Lichtblick e.V.".

Forays through more than 120 years of film history
 

Since its founding, the student initiative has been showing ambitiously curated thematic film series ranging from early silent films to contemporary cinema. In these forays through more than 120 years of film history, the association established by students of media studies has already been able to bring all kinds of classics, marginalised films, curiosities and forgotten treasures back to the big screen.  Most recently, this was achieved with film series on "Cinema Acqua: Beneath the Surface", "They Steal, They Shoot, They Kill" and "Future Visions: Yesterday's Tomorrow is Not Today". This is possible, including analogue projection of 35mm film, even without a cinema hall of its own, thanks to the long-standing - and Germany-wide unique - cooperation with the Pollux Kino in Paderborn.

On the occasion of the anniversary, the "Programmkino Lichtblick", together with long-time companions of the association, has put together a selection of films that are intended to capture the essence of the cinema experience. The result is an anniversary programme that aims to show cinema in all its diversity: There is the spectacle of the still impressive effects in the Hollywood classic "King Kong", the escapism of the Western genre - which could only exist through cinema - in "Bend of the River", the colour violence of Akira Kurosawa's epic "Ran", whose brilliant images almost burst the cinema screen, as well as the immediacy in the German arthouse success "Victoria", which does without editing and thus creates a unique pull into the film.

Halloween Horror Night and Film Quiz in Paderborn Pub
 

A special highlight of the programme is the silent film double feature with piano accompaniment by Eunice Martins. In addition, the legendary Horror Night on Halloween will take place again after eight years. An exhibition on the history of the initiative at the university is also planned.

In addition, the students will present new editions of the film quiz at the Black Sheep (Ükern 28, 33098 Paderborn). Film titles have to be guessed here in a wide variety of categories. Participants can expect film soundtracks, quotes, film scenes, props and lots of trivia. The film quiz starts at 7.30 p.m. and takes place on Thursday, 26 October, Wednesday, 13 December and Thursday, 18 January.

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