Pastime

Pastime

Wed, 19th of February 2025 – 7 p.m. Hackesche Höfe Kino

Films: 

SLEEP #2
IN HER TIME (IRIS’ VERSION)

Debate Format: WUNSCHDENKEN

Director’s Choice: in this format, our invited filmmakers are asked to choose someone with whom they would like to discuss their own films. Whether it’s a long-time companion, an expert or an intellectual crush, Critics’ Week makes it possible.  

Guests: Mathieu Li-Goyette, Diane Severin Nguyen, Nele Wohlatz

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SLEEP #2

D: Radu Jude, ROU 2024, 62 Min., o. D. – German Premiere

In this found-footage homage to Andy Warhol, Radu Jude gives free rein to chance. Drawing on footage from a live webcam installed next to the pop art provocateur’s grave, Jude crafts a work that observes, improvises and meditates in equal measure.

Radu Jude:
Born in 1977 in Bucharest, Romania, Radu Jude began his career as an assistant director before moving on to direct short films and later feature films. His debut feature, THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, marked the beginning of his career, followed by films such as AFERIM!, SCARRED HEARTS, and UPPERCASE PRINT. In 2021, his film BAD LUCK BANGING or LOONY PORN won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale. Jude is currently in post-production on two feature films: DRACULA and KONTINENTAL’25.

IN HER TIME (IRIS’ VERSION)

D: Diane Severin Nguyen, C: Li Meixian, DOP: Xie Junqian, Diane Severin Nguyen, US 2025, 67 Min., Chinese Original with English Subtitles – World Premiere

Pop culture often meets violence and guns in cinema, but here it happens in a particularly unorthodox way. The young woman protagonist of IN HER TIME (IRIS’ VERSION) is rehearsing for a war, as she will soon be starring in a historical movie. She recites her lines repeatedly as she wanders through the city, recording videos for social media along the way – her life and her role seeming less and less compatible. Here is an anti-war film that taps into political visual memory and conjures up history, but refuses the expected seriousness and caution: the artist Diane Severin Nguyen brushes her images against the grain. Looking behind the surface becomes a task, a challenge, an inevitability.

Diane Severin Nguyen works with photography, video, and installation. Through material and sculptural experimentations, Nguyen approaches the photographic moment as one of transformation. The artist is particularly interested in exceeding photography as a mode of documentation, engaging with it as a set of conditions shaped by desire and speculation. Her video work narrates these tensions by examining the histories of power, victimhood, and propaganda that underpin cultural (and self) image-making. She has exhibited internationally, in places like SculptureCenter, The Renaissance Society, Rockbund Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Carnegie Museum of Art, Schinkel Pavilion, Jeu du Paume, Hammer Museum, and others. Her films have been screened at festivals like the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Berlinale. Nguyen is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and lives and works in New York.