Nachkrieg
Dominik Graf/Berliner Schule

In der neuen "Senses of Cinema"-Ausgabe gibt es ein großes und äußerst lesenswertes Interview mit Dominik Graf. Besonders interessant daran finde ich, wie Graf auf die insistenten Nachfragen des Gesprächspartners Marco Abel sein Verhältnis zur "Berliner Schule" so genau - und wohl auch so freundlich - wie niemals zuvor beschreibt. Hier die entscheidende Passage dazu:

The Berlin School has the same attitude, as if before their arrival on the scene there had been a propaganda war going on that made you blind and deaf: the war waged by blockbusters against the rest of the world. Sometime around 1994, 1995, you had to develop new aesthetic forms in order to hear something else, to see something else. The first response to the relentless assault by Hollywood upon our senses was Dogme 95, after which the Berlin School arrived. That said, I couldn’t be as radical as they are in this regard because I am ten years older and perceive things differently. I am not quite as damaged by the cinema; I know it from before the state of war, so to speak. But I understand where they are coming from 100%, I think: from the early 1990s at the latest, it had become necessary to radically object to the screaming “vanity fair” of all cinematographic availabilities.