Following up on the Harun Farocki Institute's public screening of Marta Rodriguez and Jorge Silva's "Chircale"s, we are screening their NUESTRA VOZ DE TIERRA, MEMORIA Y FUTURO (Our Voice of the Earth, Memory and the Future) on June 14. It was shot in 1981 and premiered in the Berlinale Forum in 1982, for which a 16-mm print with German subtitles was created. The Colombian filmmaker Marta Rodriguez was born in Bogotá in 1933 and studied anthropology there before going to Paris to study film. She and the cameraman Jorge Silva filmed a series of anthropological documentaries about indigenous culture in the Andes. NUESTRA VOZ DE TIERRA, MEMORIA Y FUTURO uses fictional elements to explore the struggle of land reclamation and the attempt to see the past politically and the present historically.
It's that time again! On June 11, archive expert Vaginal Davis is presenting her latest analogue finds at silent green alongside Daniel Hendrickson: Two episodes of Beat-Club, the first German TV show to present English-speaking artists. The show was broadcast by Radio Bremen from 1965 to 1972. It was presented by Uschi Nerke and various other co-hosts. In the first episode, the TV presenter apologized to viewers who did not like beat music, but the show had soon acquired cult status. Performances by Cat Stevens, the Bee Gees, Jimi Hendrix and The Who will be complemented by some surprise clips from Vaginal Davis' own collection.
"Akher ayam el madina / In the Last Days of the City"
Downtown Cairo is an organism that still seems alive back in winter 2009/10, but is becoming increasingly alien even to those born there. Khalid is a filmmaker. He looks at his images over and over again, as if he were waiting for them to produce some sort of meaning. The stories of his protagonists seem to come from somewhere inside him, he seeks points of reference in the outside world. The more he looks for them, the more they seem to disappear; not abruptly though, but in lengthy moments full of tenderness, such as when he bids farewell to his girlfriend who is leaving him, to his ill mother, to friends who have come to visit.
