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IMC Movie Club: "The Five Obstructions"

IMC goes to the movies! Katrin Heimann is now starting the IMC Movie Club. Come and join us for this grand premiere featuring "The Five Obstructions" by Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier.

Danish film maker Jørgen Leth in "The Five Obstructions"

Info about event

Time

Thursday 30 April 2015,  at 15:00 - 17:00

Location

IMC meeting room, Nobelparken, building 1483-3, Aarhus

Organizer

Katrin Heimann <katrinheimann@gmail.com>, IMC
"The Five Obstructions" movie poster (2004)

Coffee, Cake and Movie Club

The film will be followed by a discussion, and Katrin has promised to bring cake for the after-session. Coffee is on the house. Katrin says you're welcome to bring other movie-enthusiasts along, but asks you to please drop her a line to let her know if you're coming, so she knows approximately how big a cake to bake! Please write to katrinheimann@gmail.com to register for this event

 

The Five Obstructions

The first film in the new Movie Club will be "The Five Obstructions" by Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier. It's an investigative journey into the phenomenon of "documentary", based on manifestos written by each director. About a filmmaker not only revisiting, but also recreating (not in a conventional sense) one of his first films, The Perfect Human / Det perfekte menneske (1967), a document on life in Denmark, containing the familiar Leth idiosyncrasies

You can read more about the movie in this article from BOMB Magazine: http://bombmagazine.org/article/2656/j-rgen-leth