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PRISM: How to connect – LOVE & BODIES
SAT 14.10.23 | 10.15 pm | Kino in der Kulturbrauerei
These films ask questions about origins and arrivals, about togetherness and counterpart. Images and lines that celebrate love, family and friendship, clever and poignant. All Journeys into self-knowledge.
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
IICWLIM: A Chapbook Film
USA 2023 | 13 min
R·D: Ricardo Bouyett
G·P: If I Could Write Love Into Men
D·P: Ricardo Bouyett
Experimental short film adaptation of Puerto Rican filmmaker and poet Ricardo Bouyett’s poetry collection, If I Could Write Love Into Men. At the intersection of feature film, performance, and poetry clip. Poetic exploration of queerness and the desire to raise a new generation of men with love and acceptance rather than fear and control.
Fanm Diviné
Women of Divinity
LCA 2023 | 2 min
R·D: Curmiah Lisette
G·P: Fanm Diviné
D·P: Curmiah Lisette
Poetic, feminist adaptation of Macbeth’s witches. The lasting impact of colonialism on the spirituality of diasporic Creole-Caribbean women – and on their relationships with family, sexuality, and grief. Collaborative multilingual short film by St. Lucian-British artist Curmiah Lisette and sisters Indira and Kimhia Toussaint.
Pociąg z Krakowa do Warszawy
Train from Cracow to Warsaw
POL 2023 | 1 min
R·D: Stanisław Juszczyk
G·P: Pociąg z Krakowa do Warszawy
D·P: Adam Zagajewski
“In the high above, you seek enlightenment, in the Alps and in cathedrals, but then you see these humble fires glowing in the evening.” To a poem by Adam Zagajewski, in this animated film, Stanisław Juszczyk reflects on the distance between wish and reality. The protagonist is a parasite who only realizes the limitations of his habitat upon reaching his host’s perspective.
Nisam je stigao voljeti
I didn't make it to love her
BIH, ESP, GBR 2022 | 17 min
R·D: Anna Fernandez De Paco
G·P: Nisam je stigao voljeti
D·P: Marko Tomaš
A man, a woman, an apartment in Sarajevo. A dog, moving boxes, unhappy parties. On the radio, poems about love as a process of recognition, as a problem. A live-action film with Marko Tomaš, poet from Bosnia-Herzegovina, about a poet and a woman who might break down by being his muse. A stylized world of depression, cigarettes, and care.
METAMORPHOSIS
ITA 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Alan Cossettini
G·P: Metamorphosis
D·P: Charles Bukowski
The most famous natural metamorphosis is that of the caterpillar into a butterfly. In literature, it is Kafka's Metamorphosis: man into beetle. Italian short film by Alan Cossettini, based on the poem by US-based poet Charles Bukowski, in which a lyrical self decides against metamorphosis. “I have broken off with all 3 of my girlfriends. / I felt better when everything was in / disorder.”
INDIGO
DEU 2023 | 17 min
R·D: Mona Okulla Obua
G·P: Indigo fountains
D·P: Mona Okulla Obua
A surrealist journey begins with a hair-braiding ritual. Two Black German women, different opinions: “Your hair isn’t in good shape,” says one. “They’re part of me,” the other responds. A conversation between diaspora and continent, tradition and present, past and future. “And in my womb grew fairy tales, / that soon drew a new world.”
Borrador
Draft
ARG 2023 | 4 min
R·D: Agustín Vallejo
G·P: Borrador
D·P: Ana Rocío Jouli
Draft after draft... In this experimental poetry clip, Berlin-based writer Ana Rocío Jouli struggles with the physical and mental pain of completing a poem ahead of an ominously approaching deadline. A poetic experiment on embracing the frustration of the creative process. Let go – we’re never alone in writing poetry, after all.
Ultimamente, Lorca
Lately, Lorca
DEU 2023 | 10 min
R·D: Waref Abu Quba, Rachel Clarke
G·P: Latley, Lorca
D·P: Rachel Clarke
Freedom, flamenco, art and poetry – set courageously against the terror of dictatorships. A tribute to Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca in an animated Spanish-German short film, with illustrations by Salam Alhassan, with A.I. generated scenes by Waref Abu Quba and an epic poem in free verse by Rachel Clarke. With a soundtrack by Peter Hofmann and music by the flamenco guitarist Abeö Sánchez and the singer Elena Botica from Andalusia and Berlin.
Thomas
GBR 2023 | 5 min
R·D: Eilidh Gow
G·P: Thomas
D·P: Ian Macartney
One man’s poetic monologue after a one-night stand. While speaking to his sleeping partner, Thomas confesses his doubts and desires, wrestling with the dichotomies of Christian faith and homosexuality – and finding a tentative peace in the end. Feature film by Eilidh Gow to a poem by Scottish poet Ian Macartney.
Pluma Bollera
Dyke plumage
ESP 2022 | 3 min
R·D: Alexandra Gascón
G·P: Pluma bollera
D·P: Alexandra Gascón
System error. A drag king on stage. Tune in with this antenna! In Spain, dykes are visible – in soccer, in the media, in art, and in the streets. Marcus Massalami, Spanish drag king, presents his first video clip to the song “Pluma Bollera,” produced by Eskarnia.
BLACK. BRITISH. MUSLIM. OTHER.
GBR 2021 I 4 min
Director: Enas Saeed
Poem: BLACK. BRITISH. MUSLIM. OTHER.
Poet: Enas Saeed
A woman, in a Sudanese wedding gown , arranged by anonymous hands. She steps out of this adornment into different versions of herself. “It’s not for you to make an image out of me.” About a Black Muslim woman’s self-liberation.
