The Münster Literature Film Festival will take place for the third time from 20 to 29 September 2024, this year under the motto “Change of Perspective”.
LITFILMS is the only festival in Germany dedicated to the complex field of tension between film and literature and offers both art forms a platform in a variety of ways. Cologne-based artists Son Lewandowski and Rike Hoppse win the competition for the three-month residency in Münster, having been selected from a total of 47 applicants.
During the residency, the two artists will develop a “literary-filmic-ethnographic-social experiment on failure” and document their work in a literary-filmic “journal of failure”: “We want to explore the question of which toxic narratives of non-functioning surround us and how these can be artistically broken up and retold,” say filmmaker Hoppse and writer Lewandowski about their project. To this end, they want to draw on an experimental research practice in which they observe themselves in situations of failure in socially playful experiments in private and public spaces.
Her work will be shown at the end of the residency as part of the festival – alongside many other programme items such as literary adaptations, films about literature or literary creators and screenplay adaptations.
LITFILMS is supported by the Kunststiftung NRW, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the City of Münster, the Münster Foundation of Sparda-Bank West and the LWL Kulturfonds.
The full programme will be announced at the end of August.
LITFILMS takes place in and around Münster. The venues include the Schloßtheater, the LWL – Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Kloster Bentlage Rheine and many more.
