KINO-SINE: Philippine-German Cinema Relations
Download the book (PDF, 6,5MB) Edited by Tilman Baumgärtel
Contributions by Jürgen Brüning, Ditsi Carolino, Lav Diaz, Nick Deocampo, Harun Farocki, Ulrich Gregor, Nan Goldin, Christoph Janetzko, Mark Meily, Ingo Petzke, Rosa von Praunheim, Raymond Red, Roxlee, Werner Schroeter, Bobby Suarez, Kidlat Tahimik, John Torres, Maria Vedder and Michael Wulfes
Beginning in the mid-1970’s and continuing through the 1980’s and into the 1990’s, a number of German film directors, theorists and other movie people came to work or teach in the Philippines. Some came because the Goethe-Institut Manila had invited them for workshops and film presentations. Others came at their own expense because they were fascinated by Philippines, which– after the People Power revolution of 1986 that ousted the Marcosregime– exercised its own peculiar kind of magnetism on many Europeans. The workshops “the Germans” conducted and the film screenings they presented were in part responsible for the emergence of an alternative film scene in the Philippines that went on to garner recognition and awards at international film festivals in the 1980s.
This book deals with the “Sine-Kino- Connection”. It documents the beginnings of the experimental and alternative film movement of the 1980s in the Philippines. And, at the same time, it deals with a part of German film history that few people in Germany are aware of. Today a new generation of independent Filipino filmmakers is emerging and once again garnering critical acclaim in the Philippines and abroad. This book provides an historical perspective on the earlier development of experimental, non-mainstream film in the Philippines.
ERRATA FOR "KINO-SINE: PHILIPPINE-GERMAN CINEMA RELATIONS"
The illustrations on the inside cover of the book are by Roxlee.
On page 72, Jürgen Brüning is photographed next to his partner Rune Layumas.
About the editor: 
Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel currently teaches at the Film Institute of the College of Mass Communication at the University of the Philippines. He studied German Literature, History and Media Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Duesseldorf and the State University of New York in Buffalo (USA) and has taught media aesthetics and media history at the Universität Paderborn, Technische Universität Berlin and the Mozarteum in Salzburg (Austria). He contributes regularly to German and international reviews, newspapers and magazines and has published books on Internet art, computer games and the German filmmaker Harun Farocki. As a curator, he has organized a number of exhibitions in Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Korea and Japan.
Published by the Goethe-Institut Manila 2007
Exclusively distributed by Anvil Publishing, Pasig City, The Philippines
ISBN 978-971-27-2025-3
The book will have its international launch at the Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference in Jakarta and at the Asian Hotshots Festival in Berlin, Germany.
Book presentation "Kino Sine" at the Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC), Jakarta, Indonesia
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Book presentation of "Kino Sine" at the Asian Hotshots Festival
Babylon Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Friday, January 18, 2008
Book presentation of "Kino Sine" and marathon screening of all the films from the Goethe-Institut film workshops at the Videotheque, back of Cine Adarna, UP Film Institutte, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
February 2008
Schedule of Marathon Screening (doc, 29kb)
