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PRISM: Urbanities – CITY & SOCIETY
SAT 14.10.23 | 5pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei
Everyday sounds merge into the great sound of the city. Poets reconcile with the past on forays through hot spots of their districts. We hear a sonnet for a job interview, a summer sonata to a neighborhood, and a poem against a president. In a lament, bodies merge with the architecture of an abandoned bus station. Images from the condensed societies of urban spaces, loving and complicated.
Hosted by Ingrid Beerbaum
The screenings are normally shown in the original with English subtitles.
Unless stated otherwise, the event languages are German and English.
Please be aware that several films in some film programs include potentially challenging or disturbing content, which may trigger survivors of trauma.
Link to the event
TICKETS
R·D: Regie · Director | G·P: Gedicht · Poem | D·P: Dichter · Poet
FILMS
Львівські голуби
Pigeons of Lviv
UKR 2023 | 1 min
R·D: Inna Bezusko
G·P: Львівські голуби
D·P: Lina Kostenko
Homage to black-and-white times, old maps, silhouettes. Doves perch on the rooftops and views of Lviv, both observers and protagonists. “The doves are prattling high above the town, / What are they chattering about, I wonder.” A poem by Lina Kostenko, a classic of Ukrainian poetry, translated into peaceful environs. An old city, before the wars.
Музей під водою
Museum under water
DEU 2023 | 3 min
R·D: Angie Siveria
G·P: Музей під водою
D·P: Angie Siveria
A girl named Norma, her dreams and memories. A miniature hot air balloon as a guide. Hands dive into a mirror. An eye, closing again and again. Dynamic animation from an underwater world, accompanied by music by Oskar Schuster. A complex game with drawing styles, populated with angels, Walt Whitman and great-grandmother Gala.
ЛЕТНА СОНАТА ЗА МОЈОТ ГРАД
Summer sonata about my city
MKD 2022 | 2 min
R·D: Marija Shakleva
G·P: ЛЕТНА СОНАТА ЗА МОЈОТ ГРАД
D·P: Andrej Al-Asadi
A painting in the making. The camera pans: dripping paint, a horse's head, a hood, a flower. “In my city / Only the sun has no cost,” so the poem by Andrej Al-Asadi. Then the image appears on sidewalks, on bridges, in front of monuments. A cloaked rider. Behind her, the star rests on a horse-drawn carriage – or maybe just a yellow disc.
ECHODROM (Nachts im Bach)
ECHODROME (Nighttime at the Well)
DEU 2022 | 16 min
R·D: Gudrun Krebitz
G·P: ECHODROM (Nachts im Bach)
D·P: Gudrun Krebitz
A stream of images: A journey of detours, beginning in a fountain. Superimposition of live-action film, drawings, written panels. Voices sing, speak to each other. Dry humor. Even the water speaks with them. A name written in the lake forever. Gudrun Krebitz single-handedly generates maximum weirdness with simple means. “Follow my inner planetary music.”
Hiding Place
USA 2022 | 2 min
R·D: Sami Miranda, Ellie Walton
G·P: Hiding Place
D·P: Sami Miranda
Prospect Avenue Station – a favorite refuge of poet Sami Miranda. In this film, Miranda visits the places of childhood. A public housing project in the South Bronx. Memories of journeys to Manhattan, from which one returned with “ears composing notes into a song that you will turn into.” Historical family photos, the Bronx in black and white.
from The Black Maria
USA 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Matthew Thompson
G·P: from The Black Maria
D·P: Aracelis Girmay
One of those overground subway stations in New York. Its strange beauty. Face flooded in light, trans-Xicanx poet Moncho Ollin Alvarado recites from Aracelis Girmay's long poem “The Black Maria:” “& so to tenderness I add my action.” Lines about the lucky improbability of all life, of all encounters.
When it feels hot, that rage against me
GBR 2022 | 2 min
R·D: Helmie Stil
G·P: When it feels hot, that rage against me
D·P: Rebecca Goss
A highway underpass at night. Two girls head home from the pub, far from their childhood homes. “just the lane knowing / how to hold us, its chorus of night creatures.” A miniature coming-of-age film by Helmie Stil, set to a poem by Rebecca Goss about awakening bodies, looking at old men, joints, friendship and love – and everything in between.
SONNET
BEL 2023 | 5 min
R·D: Paul Bogaert, Jan Peeters
G·P: SONNET
D·P: Paul Bogaert
The strangest consultation: a sonnet. Dialogue between a pixelated person and a confused client. Advice that seems meaningless at first: “So anticipate. Even if there’s nothing to see.” Plunging in an underwater world. Jan Peeters and Paul Bogaert have once again produced a movie that subverts all viewing habits.
LA COLPA AL CAPITALISMO
THE FAULT ON CAPITALISM
DEU 2023 | 4 min
R·D: Gabriele Nugara
G·P: La colpa al capitalismo
D·P: Francesco Targhetta
Images from Berlin: unhoused people on the streets, biking through Kreuzberg, reading poetry in a café. The unresolved contradictions of capitalism, witnessed by a lonely young woman. Because: “After putting the fault on capitalism / what remains is an immense void,” says the poem by Francesco Targhetta. Thoughts on rebellion and everyday life.
שיר קינה לתחנה המרכזית
Lamentation for the Tel-Aviv Central Bus Station
ISR 2023 | 11 min
R·D: Yotam Sas, Netta Spiegel
G·P: The Architecture of the Species
D·P: Saar Yachin
A Brutalist wreck: Tel Aviv's central bus station never truly operated. Too big, too expensive. Today, it’s only a fulcrum of noise and dirt. Lament-performance by the Great Gehenna Choir, which wanders through the huge rooms and sings psychomagically about the building. An experiment in architecture and failure, set to a poem by Saar Yachin.
Skjelv du på handa, Vladimir?
Does Your Hand Shake, Vladimir?
NOR 2023 | 13 min
R·D: Odveig Klyve
G·P: Skjelv du på handa, Vladimir?
D·P: Odveig Klyve
Burning homes, bullet holes. Wounded, unhoused, dead. A piano in the rubble. Horrific images of war in Ukraine – reimagined. In March 2022, Odveig Klyve's poem was shared thousands of times and translated into over 100 languages. The voices of the poem’s many translators can be heard in the movie. An international indictment.
and furthermore (indexed)
AUS 2022 | 5 min
R·D: Ian Gibbins
G·P: and furthermore (indexed)
D·P: Ian Gibbins
Adelaide, Australia. An audiovisual experiment by Ian Gibbins in which lines of text are projected onto the city facades. Every occurrence of “and + X” on the NEWS pages of The Advertiser newspaper, October 24, 2014, sorted alphabetically. Read by Karen, the text-to-speech voice of MacOS. The city as a carrier of news, as one big screen.
Absolut
USA 2023 | 4 min
R·D: Caroline Rumley
G·P: Absolut
D·P: Caroline Rumley
In a COVID surge, the simple desire to see people again. Very personal text, combined with archival footage of a party from the early days of film. A meditation on loneliness and society by Caroline Rumley, about time loops and transience, even that of crises – and the explosion of new ones.
