Cinema of Care, with Claire Denis, Abby Sun, and Marek Hovorka

Published: Feb. 17, 2023, 9:33 p.m.

b'This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2023 Berlinale is currently underway. Throughout the festival, we\\u2019ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year\\u2019s selection.\\xa0\\n\\nA couple days ago, before the festival kicked off, FC co-deputy editor Devika Girish attended the opening conference of the Berlin Critics\\u2019 Week\\u2014an autonomous sidebar to the Berlinale, organized independently by a collective of German critics, including Amos Borchert, Elena Friedrich, Petra Palmer, and Dennis Vetter. The topic of the conference was \\u201cCinema of Care - Who Looks After Film Culture?\\u201d which included a panel discussion moderated by Devika, and featuring a stellar lineup of guests: curators Abby Sun and Marek Hovorka, and the filmmaker Claire Denis. The four had a provocative, in-depth conversation about what care looks like on the level of aesthetics, in filmmaking, and in film programming, and how we might build a sustainable and collective film culture. \\n\\nWe\\u2019re very grateful to Berlin Critics Week for letting us share the conversation on the podcast.'