Director: Lutz Dammbeck, colour, B & W, 163 min., 2015
Discussion with Geger Riyanto after the screening
Nearly universally, game shows are among the most popular programmes on television, and their success does not necessarily depend on the production costs. Coming across a lead almost by chance, filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck searches out the roots and mechanisms of the genre. He was especially interested in the theory that the origins of the TV game show lie in American psychiatry and its influence on re-education programmes developed by Americans after the Second World War in the belief that Germany had gone insane.
Geger Riyanto
Geger Riyanto is currently a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Anthropology of Heidelberg University, Germany. He is a columnist for
Oase, a section of online journal IndoProgress. He taught Constructivism and Philosophy of Social Science at the University of Indonesia.
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ARTHOUSE CINEMA
Arthouse Cinema is the regular film program of the Goethe-Institut Indonesia. Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month we screen independent movies, avant-garde movies, retrospectives, experimental films or documentary films from Europe and Indonesia – anything but the mainstream!
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