Thursday Feb 5

8:30 PM Prelude

ONE WAY TICKET – WELCOME IN EUROPE?

Presented by Heinrich Böll Foundation

No Nations – no borders? For most immigrants rather wishful thinking. Their goal is: arriving. But where and how? Belonging – what does it mean today? The journalist Mely Kiyak and the author Olga Grjas- nowa take a stand. And reflect thus the central theme of Brûle la mer: The experience of alienation and the search for identity.

followed by

BRÛLE LA MER (Burn the Sea)
D: Nathalie Nambot and Maki Berchache, DP: Nicolas Rey, F 2014, 75 min., Super8/16mm as DCP, French OwES – GP

BURNING THE SEA stands at the paradoxical crossroads between the lively energy of a revolution in progress, the momentum of a departure to Europe, and the violence of a welcome declined. It is not a film about emigration or revolution, it is an essay on freedom. – Jean-Pierre Rehm

followed by

TRANSFORMERS: THE PREMAKE – A Desktop Documentary
Idea: Kevin B. Lee, USA 2014, 25 min., web, engl. OV – GP

A darkly funny, paranoid detective story about the intersection of corporate property and public space, where a studio can make a copyright claim on the view outside your window. Needless to say, it also features plenty of explosions, flubbed takes, Midwestern locations dressed up to look like China, and scenes of crowds running from imaginary giant robots. – The A.V. Club

followed by

Debate
Activism – how political activism manifests as aesthetical statement.

How can political cinema manifest itself? How can film criticism take a political stance? Contemporary cinema is limited in its mobility, because cinema as a form of expression is based on industrial and capitalist structures. How free is the image in the present modes of production and presentation? To consider cinema as a political and cultural claim is the challenge for a form of criticism that positions itself within a framework of social responsibility.

Participants

Nathalie Nambot (Director “Brûle la mer”, France)
Nicolas Rey (DOP “Brûle la mer”, author, director, France)
Kevin B. Lee (Critic, essayist, filmmaker, director & author of “Transformers: The Premake”, USA)
Moderation: Dunja Bialas and Dennis Vetter

Epilogue

Studio SNIPER
Rosenthalerstrasse 39 (adjacent court)