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Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, founded in 1954, is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world. Held in Oberhausen, it is one of the major international platforms for the short form. The festival holds an International Competition, German Competition, and International Children's and Youth Film Competition, as well as the MuVi Award for best German music video and, since 2009, the NRW Competition for productions from the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Oberhausen is known today for its extensive thematic programmes such as "Memories Can't Wait. Film without Film" (2014), "The Third Image. 3D Cinema as Experiment" (2015), or "The Language of Attraction. Trailers between Advertising and the Avant-garde" (2019). The festival in addition offers visitors a well-equipped Video Library, operates a non-commercial short-film distribution service and owns an archive of short films from over 60 years of cinema history. History The International Short Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lichtburg
Lichtburg ("fortress of light" or "light castle") has been a popular name for cinemas in Germany. Those in Berlin, Essen and Düsseldorf have been particularly famous; the Lichtburg in Oberhausen is the site of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and Quernheim is the smallest municipality in Germany with a cinema, also called Lichtburg. Düsseldorf The Düsseldorf Lichtburg opened on 5 November 1910 as the "Lichtspiele Königsallee" (Königsallee Moving Pictures, for the name of the street).Lichtburg, Düsseldorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Königsallee 38–40 allekinos.com, retrieved 3 April 2011 It was designed by Oskar Rosendahl, a local architect who the following year published an influential article in ''Der Kinomatograph'' in which he laid out guidelines for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
