Filmpodium, a repertory cinema operated by the Mayor of Zurich’s Office of Cultural Affairs, screens around 350 different films per year. Thematic cycles and retrospectives of classic works of cinema run side-by-side with premieres of distinctive ...
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Film heritage and restitution: Who owns the images?
What are the implications of the expropriation and migration of a film heritage that originated under colonial conditions? What models of critical reappropriation are available, and what forms of cooperation between archives are possible? Film scholar and curator Nikolaus Perneczky uses two films to illustrate how issues of restitution and reparation also affect moving images in archives.
Introduction by film scholar and curator Nikolaus Perneczky, followed by a discussion moderated by Philip Widmann (UZH), in English
The evening is part of the inter-university doctoral collaboration ‘Visual Dispositives: Cinema, Photography and Other Media’ (University of Zurich / Université de Lausanne). A doctoral workshop with Nikolaus Perneczky will take place at UZH on 11 November.
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / 17 / Farbe / Digital HD / E+Arab/e
Regie: Theo Panagopoulos
Drehbuch: Theo Panagopoulos
Musik: Alexandra Katerinopoulou
Schnitt: Theo Panagopoulos
The Dislocation of Amber / 32 / Farbe / Digital HD / Arab/e
Regie: Hussein Shariffe
Drehbuch: Hussein Shariffe
Kamera: Abdel Moneim Adawi
Schnitt: Alan Ballard
Introduction by film scholar and curator Nikolaus Perneczky, followed by a discussion moderated by Philip Widmann (UZH), in English
The evening is part of the inter-university doctoral collaboration ‘Visual Dispositives: Cinema, Photography and Other Media’ (University of Zurich / Université de Lausanne). A doctoral workshop with Nikolaus Perneczky will take place at UZH on 11 November.
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing / 17 / Farbe / Digital HD / E+Arab/e
Regie: Theo Panagopoulos
Drehbuch: Theo Panagopoulos
Musik: Alexandra Katerinopoulou
Schnitt: Theo Panagopoulos
The Dislocation of Amber / 32 / Farbe / Digital HD / Arab/e
Regie: Hussein Shariffe
Drehbuch: Hussein Shariffe
Kamera: Abdel Moneim Adawi
Schnitt: Alan Ballard
Introduction by film scholar and curator Nikolaus Perneczky, followed by a discussion moderated by Philip Widmann (UZH), in English
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026
18:30 - 19:19 o'clock
Introduction by film scholar and curator Nikolaus Perneczky, followed by a discussion moderated by Philip Widmann (UZH), in English
Filmpodium Kino
Nüschelerstrasse 11
8001 Zürich
+41 (0)44 415 33 66
info@filmpodium.ch
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The cinema is accessible for wheelchairs and equipped with a wireless assistive listening system.
