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Event: October 2014

Fri
17/10/14
07:30 PM

City, Country, Flight

Event-Picture: City, Country, Flight

Film

Prisma

The urban squeeze forces us out into nature, which we barely recognise anymore. We take a more precise look at pastoral idylls, neighbours, neighbourhoods or simply at koalas and crabs. 

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Location:
Babylon
Saal 2

Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin


Entrance fee:
8 EUR


Info- and Tickets: +49. 30. 242 59 69 (from 5 pm)
Tickets also available at www.babylonberlin.de

The Movies

The Black Man

  The Black Man

Alexander Fedorov – Russian Federation  2014  5:00 min  russia  
Poem: The Black Man Sergei Yesenin

An illustration of inescapable menace and darkness.

De bern ha it fjoer oanstutsen / The children Have Lit the Fire

  De bern ha it fjoer oanstutsen / The children Have Lit the Fire

Swoon – Belgium  2013  3:09 min  frisian  
Poem: De bern ha it fjoer oanstutsen Tsead Bruinja

 We give off too much light …

the light – the shade

  the light – the shade

Susanne Wiegner – Gremany  2014  7:07 min  englisch   POem: the ligth – the shade Robert Lax

The contrast of light and shadow, bright and dark, white and black, red and blue – a mental journey through personal spaces, images, letters, and words.

The Celebration

  The Celebration

Marie Silkeberg, Ghayath Almadhoun – Sweden  2014  8:53 min  arabic  
Poem: The Details Ghayath Almadhoun

A flight over the rubble of postwar Berlin reflects Syria’s present in Europe’s past.

Gilgamesh’s Snake

  Gilgamesh’s Snake

Roxana Vilk – Iraq, UK  2013  4:39 min  arabic  
Poem: Af’a Gilgamesh Ghareeb Iskander

What would happen if Gilgamesh came back to Iraq and witnessed the current state of his homeland?

Interni / Interiors

  Interni / Interiors

Gianmaria Sortino – Italy  2013  2:05 min  italian   Poem: Interni Azzurra D’Agostino

Different women living in the same building. They share the same question: what trace will I leave behind when I die?

Cabra

  Cabra

Conor O’Mahony – Ireland  2014  2:05 min  english  
Poem: Cabra Lewis Kenny

A young man laments the impact of the economic crisis on Cabra, the urban Irish community where he grew up.

Zman / Time

  Zman / Time

Avi Dabach – Israel  2014  2:50 min  hebrew   Poem: Zman Mai-Tal Nadler

The urban dweller needs to constantly change apartments and identities within a city’s vortex of chaos and decay.

Dog

  Dog

Kate Jessop – UK  2013  1:55 min  english  
Poem: Dog Richard Scott

A young man comes to terms with his sexuality and confronts his bully in his home neighbourhood.

Le Gardien du phare aime trop les oiseaux / The Lighthouse Keeper Loves Birds too Much

  Le Gardien du phare aime trop les oiseaux / The Lighthouse Keeper Loves Birds too Much

Clément De Ryuter – France  2014  4:09 min  french  
Poem: Le gardien du phare aime trop les oiseaux Jacques Prévert

Über die Absurdität des Lebens und das Spiel des Schicksals, das manchmal grausam sein kann.

The Making of

  The Making of

Brigitta Falkner – Austria  2012  7:13 min  Neologismen, Glossolalie  
Poem: The Making of Brigitta Falkner

A depiction of the production process as a cinematic palimpsest.

Post Scriptum

  Post Scriptum

Santiago Parres – Spain  2013  8:28 min  spanish  
Poem: Post Scriptum Santiago Parres

Figures gaze silently into the distance in a solemn, abstract world. How does this world relate to our messy, pedestrian reality?

Marchant grenu / Walking Grainy

  Marchant grenu / Walking Grainy

Francois Vogel – France  2013  2:20 min  english, french  
Poem: Marchant grenu Henri Michaux

A whimsical look at movement in the city. While reciting the poem, Francois Vogel »walks grainy« on the stairs of Montmartre, in Paris.

Grandmother is a Crab

  Grandmother is a Crab

Stuart Pound – UK  2012  2:00 min  english  
Poem: Grandmother is a Crab Rosemary Norman

Revisiting the magic world of a child on a beach.

SHIULI – in search of my Goddess

  SHIULI – in search of my Goddess

Amartya Bhattacharyya – India  2013  9:33 min  english  
Poem: SHIULI – In Search of My Goddess Amartya Bhattacharyya

 A love letter to the joyful moments of Kolkata.

Ten S´wiat / This World

  Ten S´wiat / This World

Zbigniew Czapla – Poland  2014  1:30 min  polish, english  
Poem: Ten swiat Czeslaw Milosz

An apocalyptic reversal of the order of nature.

Hacia Todtnauberg / Towards Todtnauberg

  Hacia Todtnauberg / Towards Todtnauberg

Marta Azparren – Spain  2014  5:40 min  spanish  
Poem: Claroscuro del Bosque José Luis Gómez Toré

A dialogue between different arts about the moral responsibility of culture.

Berlin, Berlin

  Berlin, Berlin

Nehemias Colindres – Gremany  2013  2:17 min  english   Poem: Berlin Berlin Nehemias Colindres

The highs and lows of life in Berlin. What is it that binds Berliners to their city?

Proem

  Proem

Suzie Hanna – UK  2013  3:18 min  english  
Poem: Proem – To Brooklyn Bridge Harold Hart Crane

Fragmentary images of the river, the sky, and the city come together in this ode to the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Artisan

  The Artisan

David Jurakovich – Australia, New Zealand  2013  2:37 min  english  
Poem: The Artisan Natasha Sinclair

A young woman is overwhelmed and uninspired by contemporary urban life and turns her thoughts to nature, trying to find her »inner koala«.