INPUT 1986 - Montreal, Canada

"April is a difficult month: Winter is not over and it is not Spring yet." So said an internal planning memo. The organizers of INPUT 1986 had cause to be concerned. April in Montreal was cold. But the CBC, once again hosting INPUT in Canada, provided a warm welcome through an organizing team led by Gaétan Lapointe and Michel Gélinas. So huge was Montreal's Palais de Congrés that it virtually swallowed up INPUT's 700 delegates."

..."The charm was in the programs selected by the Shopstewards in Berlin during a 10-day session - "a rather short time," Sergio noted, "to overcome our prejudices and unravel the reasons for somebody else's way of looking at things." Nonetheless, "somebody else's way of looking at things" dominated the screenings. Post INPUT evaluations showed a preference for three sessions. Emotional Landscapes screened three innovative films addressing different social and cultural taboos: SVT2's A Rose of Flesh, RAI's Visos - A Field of Research on 7 Dreams, and ARD/SFB's The Twilight Hour: Love, Pian and Death."

- From "INPUT at 20" by James Day.