Volker Pantenburg (Author, Edited by, Foreword by)
Volker Pantenburg is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Zurich. His most recent book is Aggregatzustände bewegter Bilder (2022). Book publications in English include Farocki/Godard: Film as Theory (2015), Cinematographic Objects: Things and Operations (2015, Editor) and Screen Dynamics: Mapping the Borders of Cinema (Co-Editor, 2012). In 2015, he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut Berlin.

Bernard Eisenschitz (Author)
Bernard Eisenschitz is a French film critic, subtitler and historian based in Paris. He was a critic at Cahiers du cinéma and La Nouvelle Critique, and edited the journal Cinéma between 2001 and 2007. His books includeNicholas Ray: An American Journey (1990), Le cinéma allemand (1999), Fritz Lang au Travail (2011), Douglas Sirk, né Detlef Sierck (2022), and Boris Vassilievitch Barnet (2024).

Roberto Turigliatto (Author)
Roberto Turigliatto is former head of programming at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin and former director of Torino Film Festival. He collaborated with the Venice, Pesaro, Rotterdam and Locarno festivals and is co-director of the Fuori Orario program (RAI 3). He has published major collective works on new cinemas and books on Philippe Garrel, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Manoel de Oliveira, Julio Bressane, and others.

The interview with Eisenschitz is an essential resource, offering a career overview sketched by Kramer himself in bold, broad strokes and coloured with compelling anecdotal detail. Eisenschitz, well known for his studies of Hollywood, German and Soviet cinemas, had been acquainted with Kramer for more than three decades when the interview took place, having both written about the director's work as a critic and subtitled his films.footnote20 'We've gone the whole road together, from the start to here, wherever that is!' Kramer wrote to him in 1998.As such, the exchange is marked by candour and mutual understanding; it is devoid of flattery, clean of the puffed-up promotional language that now so often infiltrates filmmaker interviews--Erika Balsom "The New Left Review"

Publisher: Austrian Film Museum

Pub date: 2024-11-26

Length: 224 pages