Mushroom Associations
At the center of OLANDA (Bernd Schoch, Germany 2019) is the mushroom as an economic commodity. In addition to the film’s theatrical release (Oct 18th), we will expand the audio-visual trip with four further films.
COUNTDOWN TO NOTHING Lucile Desamory Germany 2004 OV 10'
A musical about two women’s journey through their psychedelic subconscious.
SEEKING THE MONKEY KING Ken Jacobs USA 2011 OV 40'
An animation of stereoscopic images is combined with furious commentary on the political situation in the USA and the country’s history as a driver of turbo-capitalism.
THE MERMAIDS, OR AIDEN IN WONDERLAND Karrabing Film Collective Australia 2018 OV/EnS 26’
An intervention into current debates on the effects of climate change, extractive capitalism and industrial toxicity from the perspective of indigenous worlds.
JÍIBIE Laura Huertas Millán Colombia/France 2019 OV/GeS 24'
The film addresses the production of green coca powder and unveils the mythology of kinship: In the Muiná Muruí community, the coca plant is not a product but a sacred facilitator of connection, the beating heart of the collective body.
Prologue to an enquiry
In the context of the “Archive außer sich” project, Maha Maamoun and Ala Younis present three films as a prologue to a wider research into different publishing strategies and the contexts that gave rise to them.
ON VOUS PARLE DE PARIS: MASPERO, LES MOTS ONT UN SENS France 1970 OV/EnS 20’
Chris Marker interviews French leftist publisher and author François Maspero, in an investigation of the need to create a counter public, “contre-information” and “the role leftist intellectuals can play between militancy and information.”
CROP Johanna Domke, Marouan Omara Egypt/Germany 2013 OV 47'
CROP presents a first-person narration, composed out of 19 interviews with photographers and journalists, of a view into the state’s manufacturing of consent through an intimate look into one of Egypt’s foremost state-owned newspapers and it’s position during Egypt’s revolution in 2011.
LET THERE BE WHISTLEBLOWERS Ken Jacobs 2005 OV 18’
The titular nod to whistle blowers in Ken Jacob’s film, composed of early 20th century footage of a stream train in motion, extends an invitation to reflect on the linearity of motion, progress, and perception, and in this context a reflection on the role of whistle blowers in our present political landscapes.
Footnote to Bertrand Bonello’s Retrospective
As a footnote to Bertrand Bonello’s film ZOMBI CHILD, the avant-premiere opening our showcase in Arsenal 1 on October 2nd, the online arsenal 3 cinema will show two medium-length films from our archive that deal with voodoo.
CHANTS AND DANCES FOR HAND Larry Gottheim Haiti/USA 2016 OV 39’
The film unfolds a series of Haitian stories and voodoo rites, with interwoven tonal and visual elements forming an associative montage.
DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI Maya Deren, Teiji & Cherel Ito 1947–1951, 1977 OV 50’
Both a chronicle of Maya Deren’s travels in Haiti and a cinematic exploration of Haitian dance. Her recordings of various ritual acts and practices were made between 1947 and 1951 and were put together into this film by Teiji & Cherel Ito after her death. The title stems from the belief that the spirit Loa “mounts” the dancers like a rider mounts a horse, a form of possession that is demonstrated by the superhuman movements that the dancers’ bodies then perform.
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