14.
CHAOS AND CREATION
Myth and reality of the city of Liverpool in the past and in contemporary
documentary films by the artist David Jacques
On the occasion of the exhibition of works by artist David Jacques
Liverpool are the history and current social situation of the northwest
English port city of Liverpool in the center of a film and discussion
evening. Shown below is another of the documentary "In the cellars
of Liverpool" from the year 1965. In striking black and white
images, the city of Liverpool is shown is dominated by the then-new
Beat movement, with the songs and the appearance of the Beatles from
Liverpool conquered the West and Japan. The focus, however, are not
the Beatles, but the atmosphere of Liverpool, the reality of life
in the city and people's desire. The phase in which the Beatles Liverpool
boosted determined today decisively the self-understanding of many
Liverpool and the myth of the city. Perhaps similar to the carnival
shape the self-understanding of Cologne and the Cologne myth. This
historical film recordings are at the time jump of nearly fifty years,
the latest films of the Liverpool artist David Jacques aside. Jacques
films act as his painted images of the living and working conditions
of people in Liverpool in the early 21st Century. They deal with history
of social and political consciousness. To capture a vivid and intellectual
bridge to Cologne, if time allows, also the documentary "Cologne
1945" shown in Cologne It documents the final weeks of World
War II and in the early months of the war. The film shows the city
in ruins and leads so that the situation in mind, which was the starting
point for the development of the modern, the modern city of Cologne.
The movie night and the possible conversations to follow the concerns
of post-war history and the myth of the two cities, Liverpool and
Cologne, relate to each other. Both are traditional port cities and
towns of world renown. Both are cities with a strong Catholic tradition
and great cathedrals in the center of the cityscape. Both are cities
with a strong tradition of working, high unemployment and a high immigrant
population, and what is striking that people in both cities celebrate
their history and mentality with an open displaying their pride.
Screening and Discussion
Church of St. Theodore
Castle Road 42, 51107 Cologne, Tel: 0221-872280
11th October 2012, 19 clock