From sebastian at rolux.org Thu Aug 6 20:49:39 2020 From: sebastian at rolux.org (pirate cinema berlin) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 22:49:39 +0200 Subject: Syndikat bleibt, Beirut bleibt auch Message-ID: <8E0FD4E9-9526-4380-9011-0937253E751A@rolux.org> Syndikat bleibt, Beirut bleibt auch Freitag, 7. August, 9 Uhr, Neukölln Sonntag, 9. August, 16 Uhr, Kreuzberg Anbei zwei Veranstaltungshinweise für das Wochenende. Der erste für Neukölln morgen früh um 9 Uhr (Details unter https://syndikatbleibt.noblogs.org), wo zum denkbar unpassendsten Zeitpunkt der Räumungstitel gegen eine Kneipe vollstreckt werden soll, und der zweite am Sonntagnachmittag von 16 bis 18 Uhr in Kreuzberg 36, wo ein paar Freunde Bargeld einsammeln, USD oder EUR, das ein anderer Freund in der nächsten Woche nach Beirut bringen wird (Details gern per e-mail). Wir sind ziemlich fest davon überzeugt, dass diese beiden Veranstaltungen in einem Zusammenhang stehen. Es wäre zumindest relativ schwer zu glauben, dass jemand care und cash für grösstenteils Unbekannte in Beirut übrig hat, gleichzeitig aber tatenlos dabei zusieht, wie der Berliner Senat (zzt. SPD, Die Grünen, Die Linke) sein neues Konzept zur Stadtendwicklung durchsetzt: nämlich mitten in einer Pleiten- und Leerstandswelle - von den Wellen des Virus mal ganz abgesehen - ausgerechnet Buchläden, Jugendzentren und Kneipen räumen zu lassen. Wenn zu wenige kommen, werden die, wie am letzten Samstag, von der Polizei zusammengeschlagen und vertrieben. Aber wenn genug kommen, und es fehlt noch an "Normies", dann wird das eine friedliche... naja, Revolution sicher nicht. Bloss ein kleiner Etappensieg gegen die Desasterpolitik der Regierenden in Berlin. Am Freitagmorgen geht es - denn das ist bloss eine relativ normale Kneipe unter ziemlich vielen - nicht nur um das Syndikat, sondern ums Prinzip. Eins ist jedenfalls sicher: international solidarity begins at home.(*) Wer mit sich selbst und mit der eigenen Nachbarschaft zu sorglos umgeht, dem werden am Ende die Resourcen fehlen, um sich auch noch für andere aus dem Fenster lehnen zu können. (Berufstätige, Mittellose und Kranke sind natürlich entschuldigt.) Im Anhang noch ein bisschen mehr Prosa zu beiden Veranstaltungen. Da wir gerade keine Zeit haben, copypasten wir das mal direkt aus der Welt der sogenannten "social media", in denen einer unserer Piraten schon seit einiger Zeit unter Pseudonym ein geheimes Doppelleben führt. (Er hört bald auf, er hat's mehrfach versprochen! Er hat sogar sein Abschieds-Posting schon seit Monaten fast fertig. Aber so ist 2020 eben: Wer de facto nichts zu tun hat, kommt oft zu nichts.) Es geht dabei zumindest peripher auch um die Frage der Bilder; daher hoffen wir, dass die Cineasten unter unseren Abonnenten uns unseren kurzen Abstecher ins Kampagnenwesen gern verzeihen. Zum Kino folgt in Kürze mehr. (*) siehe auch: https://rolux.org/emaf2020/for_you.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. August 2020 Ich finde ja, wenn es gegen den Faschismus geht, und darum geht es schon auch zur Zeit, dann konnte man heute getrost zu Hause bleiben. Vielleicht wertet man Coronaleugner ja zu sehr auf, indem man sich ihnen entgegenstellt. Ich habe sogar schon von Leuten gehört, die sich am Rande solcher Demos mit ziemlich üblem Nazigedankengut infiziert haben. Rechte kapieren Viren nicht. Okay. So what. Wenn es gehen den Faschismus geht, dann fände ich es weitaus sinnvoller, ab der nächsten Woche die Räumungen von Kneipen, Buchläden und Jugendzentren zu verhindern. Denn dass es irgendeine Notwendigkeit gäbe, im August 2020 auch nur irgendwen auf die Strasse zu setzen - dazu noch Initiativen, deren Beitrag zur Verbesserung der derzeit relativ desaströsen sozialen Situation völlig ausser Frage steht - das kann mir echt beim besten Willen niemand erklären. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. August 2020 > Wer hat verlässliche Hinweise, was geht? Ich habe null verlässliche Hinweise, was geht - bloss ein paar gute Freunde dort, die zzt. sicher Wichtigeres zu tun haben, als auf social media ihre Freude darüber zu sharen, dass sie alle noch am Leben sind. Meine Freunde sind nun auch keine Hafenarbeiter. Aber noch gefährlicher als eine Explosion ist natürlich der Fallout einer Explosion, und der trifft, wenn auch in unterschiedlicher Härte, alle. Was "die Bilder aus Beirut" so schwer zu erfassen macht, zumindest für mich, ist ja auch, dass Beirut eine so elend lange und zum Teil auch ziemlich tragische Geschichte der Zerstörung hinter sich hat (der Bürgerkrieg, die Lastwagenbomben, usw.), und du an einem guten Tag in Beirut ja auch durchaus mal den Eindruck haben konntest: kaputt steht Beirut ganz gut. (Zumindest im Vergleich zu der endlosen und nutzlosen Wüste an Highrise-Trash, die unter Hariri hochgezogen worden ist: das war ja auch Zerstörung.) Und die Schockwelle einer 2.5 Kilotonnen Ammoniumnitrat-Explosion gehört sicher auch zum Schlimmsten, was passieren kann, diesseits von Nuklearwaffen, und es sieht auch schlimm aus: mehr wie Atom- als wie Autobombe. Die grotesk katastropische 2020er Eskalation eines Bildes, das wir ja im Grunde alle schon kannten. Und jetzt steht da schon wieder eine Skyline ohne Fensterglas. (Was "das Schlimmste" ist, das ist natürlich schwer zu sagen. Das Schlimmste ist ja immer irgendwie right here right now. Es hätte natürlich noch irgendwas mit Chemie dazukommen können, das wäre dann richtig übel geworden. Ich finde, du hast recht, was das "vergleichen/relativieren" angeht. Es lässt sich über unterschiedliche Sachen sprechen, ohne dass dabei ein Ranking entsteht, oder das eigene Privileg - dass einem selbst nicht so viel um die Ohren fliegt normalerweise - zum Problem wird. Und "dass wir auf Bergen von nuklearem Sprengstoff sitzen" stimmt natürlich auch. Die halbe Welt hat in den 80er ihren Giftmüll vor Beirut im Meer versenkt, iirc. Das ist auch alles noch ziemlich am Blubbern.) Aber gut, das sind bloss die Bilder. Was das "Was tun?" angeht, bin ich selbst ein bisschen ratlos. Denn die Frage stellte sich am Tag vor der Explosion ja auch schon. In Beirut ist eine Menge kaputtgegangen in den letzten 10 Jahren, und seit dem Krieg in Syrien nochmal in verschärfter Form, und seit Corona nochmal in verschärft verschärfter Form. Ich hab den Aljazeera-Screenshot von relativ kurz nach der Explosion mal aufgehoben, weil: die drei Items unten, das reicht ja eigentlich schon.(*) Eine Sache, die ich persönlich tun kann, von der ich weiss, dass sie Freunden in Beirut hilft, auch wenn sie es kaum spüren werden, ist: selber die Ruhe zu bewahren und nicht in Aktionismus zu verfallen. Aber, siehe oben, das will ich jetzt null ausspielen gegen oder vergleichen mit praktischer Hilfe. Insofern ist mein Kommentar hier bloss ein längliches: Ich weiss es auch nicht. Aber was Rasha Salti sagt, das stimmt auf jeden Fall: jetzt nicht auch noch der Regierung Geld spenden. Edited to add: Nochmal ganz praktisch zu "was geht": Was geht, ist, Exil-Beiruterinnen in Berlin, die du direkt oder über Bande kennst (und denen du vertraust), US-Dollars zu geben, und die schaffen das Geld dann nächste Woche nach Beirut. Die sagen nämlich zu Recht auch: ausgerechnet jetzt darauf zu setzen, dass irgendwer in den nächsten Wochen grössere Mengen Bargeld - dazu noch aus dem Ausland! - aus einer Bank in Beirut wird ziehen können, wäre ziemlich naiv. (*) https://piratecinema.org/images/20200804.jpg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org From sebastian at rolux.org Sat Aug 15 09:17:36 2020 From: sebastian at rolux.org (pirate cinema berlin) Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 11:17:36 +0200 Subject: Seasonal Greetings from Pirate Cinema Message-ID: <681D91B6-30E0-485B-B0D3-BBBFB2F388DD@rolux.org> So far, the tagline of our current, private subseason - "Lieber zuwenig als zuviel" [1] - has proven rather useful. None of the 15 episodes we hosted in the past three months were entirely filmless, but at least it has become more apparent, and rather tangible, that cinema has many futures, many of which don't require anyone to sit in a dark, crowded room and stare at a screen. We felt relatively lucky that we didn't end up moving our program online, or doing the same thing as always, just a bit less of it. It felt quite okay to operate somewhat anticyclically; it even felt mostly okay to not just take a break - even though part of what we can announce today is that, eventually, we will. For now, Private Cinema has been extended until the end of August, but it is obvious that at some point soon, the Short Summer of Deconfinement [2] will come to an end. As far as we can see, it will most likely end in confusion, if not social unrest, accompanied by a flurry of events in arts and culture, some of which will be fun, some of which will, as always, go viral, many of which will require our participation, most of which will be ignored for lack of focus, time and bandwidth, and quite a few of which will be cancelled due to a lack of confidence in the new normal that we are supposed to, if not celebrate, so at least decorate and populate. At Pirate Cinema, we are currently considering a very brief and mostly symbolic "Season Eight, Second Wave" reopening in early September (lieber mit zu wenig Gästen als mit zu vielen, of course), upon which we may disappear for a while. But it's 2020, so you should take any statements that refer to the future with a grain silo of salt. For today, we would like to invite you to join one event (today at 4:30 pm) [3], and maybe read one text (any time) [4]. That's all - but more soon. [1] https://piratecinema.org/screenings/20200601 [2] https://copyshot.cc [3] https://piratecinema.org/texts/tear_it_down_and_turn_it_upside_down.pdf [4] https://www.textezurkunst.de/articles/claire-fontaine-idea-ourselves -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org From sebastian at rolux.org Fri Aug 21 10:00:53 2020 From: sebastian at rolux.org (pirate cinema berlin) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:00:53 +0200 Subject: August 22 + 23: 2x Pirate Cinema Message-ID: <5D43B1A7-4F33-4ECB-A682-8286FDDFAE9B@rolux.org> Saturday: Watch Pirate Cinema say: I won't share and I don't care! Sunday: Watch Pirate Cinema burn their honorarium, on the internet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 22, 5:30 pm, Martin-Gropius-Bau Vortrag / Avtonomi Akadimia / Down to Earth Sebastian Lütgert (Pirate Cinema Berlin) What happened to sharing, what happened to caring? In a u-turn of events that may come as a surprise to some, and less so to others, Sebastian Lütgert of Pirate Cinema Berlin, an institution known for its fierce pro-copyright-infringement stance and strict anti-carelessness policy in recent months, will announce the discovery of several serious flaws in two widely shared practices and deeply cared-about concepts, namely: "sharing" and "caring". Initially conceived as "What happened to 'Sharing Is Caring'?" (a popular pirate slogan from the pre-Facebook-era), this first-of-its-kind analog slideshow-cum-commentary is supposed to articulate a growing discomfort with commodified human interactions on "social media", to lament rather poignantly certain fashion phenomenona in the art world anno 2020ff, and to radically question the role of both "sharing" and "caring" as coping mechanisms during "the current situation", which, in the eyes of Pirate Cinema, is not primarily a global pandemic or psychosis, but a wide-open invitation to flatten, once and for good, the many exponentials of everyday life, artistic production and extractive social relations - an accelerating pile-up of individual ecological mini-crises and nervous breakdowns that form the global ecolocigal disaster most commonly known as "capitalism". TL;DR: Oversharing and overcaring are two of the four horsemen of our 2020 calamities. (Horsemen three and four will be announced later this year.) https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/berliner-festspiele/programm/bfs-gesamtprogramm/programmdetail_322411.html (Der bizarre Blurb auf der Webseite von Martin Gropius ist nicht von uns!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, August 23, 8 pm, on the internet Openings, not Openings presents A Bärenzwinger Production Watch Pirate Cinema Berlin Burn 50 Euros brutto Live on Twitch followed by Serge Gainsbourg brûle un billet de 500 francs à la télévision and Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (2020, 63 min) Q: Why? A: Because we're cheap. Q: Making of? Deleted scenes? Commentary track? Director's cut? English subs? A: Yes, eventually. https://piratecinema.org/videos/watch_pirate_cinema_burn (the website will be live on August 23 at 8 pm, sharp) https://www.facebook.com/baerenzwinger.berlin/ https://www.instagram.com/baerenzwinger.berlin/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgz30A2U4RL9zWOFh3EGHiQ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org From sebastian at rolux.org Sun Aug 23 15:59:16 2020 From: sebastian at rolux.org (pirate cinema berlin) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 17:59:16 +0200 Subject: Pirate Cinema has a dream Message-ID: Pirate Cinema has a dream Und zwar, dass die Mohrenstraße in Möhrenstraße umbenannt wird(1). Möhren sind gesund (angeblich sogar gut für die Augen), niemand hat was gegen Möhren, Möhren spalten nicht, sondern verbinden, Möhren haben keine antisemitische Vorgeschichte (im Unterschied zu anderen Kandidaten), und vor allem: Möhrenstraße - das wäre billig zu haben. Selbst in Berlin wäre das in zwei bis drei Tagen komplett realisiert. Alles andere wäre nicht nur eine sinnlose Verschwendung notorisch knapper Steuermittel, sondern auch eine sinnlose Verschwendung kreativer Energie. Denn was an 2020 leise nervt, das ist diese unangenehme Fixierung auf Symbole: das Umbenennen, das Denkmalstürzen, das Statuenkaputtmachen. Klar ist Mt. Rushmore eine Frechheit, aber: so what? Statt der Verhältnisse selbst immer bloss ihre Repräsentationen anzugreifen, und zwar umso vehementer, je aussichstloser das Verhältnisseverändern erscheint - das bringt nichts, ausser vermutlich kurz ein gutes Gefühl, gefolgt von anhaltender Frustration. (Und wer sich mal anschauen möchte, wie es in einer Gesellschaft zugeht, wo sich die Leute tagein tagaus gegenseitig ihre Statuen und Idole und Symbole zerkloppen, während der Faschismus landauf landab fröhlich und mörderisch Urständ feiert, sei herzlich eingeladen, und zwar nach Indien.) Den Traum hatte Pirate Cinema schon vor ein paar Wochen (die Umbenennung der Mohrenstraße in Möhrenstraße fordern wir nun auch schon seit 15 Jahren); er ist im Folgenden in englischer Sprache wiedergegeben. We didn't manage to verfilm it in time, but maybe that is something for Season Nine. Other than that, "Watch Pirate Cinema Burn..." is already live, even if not on twitch - but we weren't seriously planning to do that anyway... https://youtu.be/KDbWzESM_OE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the dream, the first thing I did was wake up. I was really tired. I found myself surrounded by various painting utensils: brushes, spray cans, buckets filled with black oil paint. I had brought these to my apartment on the previous day (that was part of why I was so tired), with the intention to vandalize the housing block I live in, in a silent but visual, and hopefully viral, protest against the corporation that owns the housing block. Given, though, that I was rather tired (and it was also late at night), this appeared like a daunting task to me. So I thought why not do something much simpler, something that would double as practice for my spraying skills. I would go to go to U Mohrenstraße and rename it to U Möhrenstraße, ad hoc and on the spot. I packed my bag (probably REWE, or maybe NORMA) and left the apartment. The elevator didn't come, and after a while, my neighbor appeared and joined me in waiting. My neighbor had once said to me: Our elevator is like the U8 - on average, you have to wait for five minutes. Tonight, it was taking considerably longer, and the dream became rather static. A metal door that wouldn't open, and a display that would display numbers, even though not always in ascending order. I was thinking about the U8, wondering if it was still running, wondering what time it was, and what day of the week, wondering if U1 (which wasn't running anyway) would be shorter, and realized that I was getting tired, and slightly dizzy. This went on for a while. But when the elevator door finally opened, and I saw my own self in the mirror (my neighbor had given up and gone back to bed), that dizzyness gave way to sudden clarity, in form of a rather fantastic idea. I wouldn't leave my neighborhood at all, just walk up one block, and rename that bar I sometimes frequent to Chez Moineau(2). (The bar will remain anonymous, but it's near Oranien Ecke Adalbert, and it's named after a flower of a specific color. Bit cliché, but who cares.) I really liked that idea. However, for some reason - the elevator was moving downwards, but at a velocity that seemed unusually slow - I was worried that everything was taking forever and that I was getting late. Even though that bar is pretty much 24/7, and renaming it wouldn't require it to be open at all, but that wasn't my line of thinking. My line of thinking was, basically: Lets go, lets do this. I rushed out the elevator, out the front door, out the yard and up one block of Adalbertstraße, just to find out, to my absolute horror and amazement, that the bar in question had just (the red paint was still fresh) renamed itself - not to Chez Moineau, however, but to Chez Michel(3). It was immediately apparent to me that this was a *really* bold move: they would prey on tourists with a dining plan, catch them one block early and serve them fake belgian food out of a fake french bistro, just for fun and profit, even though a bit of desperation must have played a role. In fact, the "terrace" (no more than two or three tables with wooden benches) was filled with foreign visitors, and the bar staff was busy serving them moules frites - a stunt that, in a month without the letter "r" in it, and at 30+ degrees celsius (it was a hot summer night), even the original Chez Michel would have very much refrained from trying to pull off. I thought (or at least I think that I thought that, but it could be that this is a post-factum addition from when I shared the dream for the first time): Oh man, Corona will be _so_ over... food poisoning is going to be the big new thing on the block. Still awestruck, I walked into the bar, which I knew had no kitchen, only to find out that the moules were coming out of a white bucket that was sitting on the floor in front of the slot machines, that for some reason the moules were all rather white-ish, or beige at best, and that one staff member was busy painting them black with oil paint. (I had long lost the bag containing my utensils, but in the dream, I didn't realize that.) The end of the dream came rather quickly. I must have ordered a drink at the bar, I had put some money into the Jukebox, but the interface was rather complicated, just like IRL, and I ended up selecting Nirvana's "Rape Me" twice in a row, by accident. I turned around, the bar was full of hipster tourists, I knew they wouldn't like the music, I think that someone beat me, but not very hard. Either way, I ended up on the floor, uninjured, but kind of tired, and it was also rather hot, so I decided that this was a good moment to go home. Looking at the ceiling, which had been painted red and white, including some social distancing advice, partially obscured by hipster tourists, I knew I had a plan, and in a sharp upward movement, I woke up from the dream. (I didn't find myself surrounded by painting utensils, because I had forgotten to fetch them the day before, and I would give up on that plan a few days later anyway.) (1) http://decolonize-mitte.de (2) https://www.google.com/search?q=chez+moineau&tbm=isch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterist_International (3) https://www.google.com/search?q=chez+michel+berlin -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org From sebastian at rolux.org Wed Aug 26 06:18:34 2020 From: sebastian at rolux.org (pirate cinema berlin) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:18:34 +0200 Subject: The thing with Pirate Cinema Message-ID: <37A75D22-3932-4A1D-BA14-55A86793D04B@rolux.org> The Thing with Pirate Cinema Thursday, August 27, 9 pm Occupancy limitations apply * TRAILER: https://piratecinema.org/trailers/the_thing_with_pirate_cinema.jpg Pirate Cinema Berlin U Kottbusser Tor Directions in separate mail -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CURRENT THING SNEAK PREVIEW https://the.current.thing.net/1 "Related to the forthcoming print version of THE CURRENT THING journal, one of the editors - Caspar Stracke - will show some videos from the journal's contributing artists - all produced during lockdown." Contributing artists include: Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Alexandro Segade, Almagul Melibayeva, Amanda McDonald-Crowley, Andy Graydon, Anna Thew, Ashton Applewhite, Bradley Eros, Caspar Stracke, Cathy Crance, Cornelia Sollfrank, Daniella Dooling, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Darrin Martin, Deborah Stratman, Diana Vidrascu, eteam, Emily Mode, Graeme Arnfield, Nordholt & Steingrobe, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jackie Goss, Les LeVeque, lundi matin, Jason Livingston, Jeanne Liotta, Jeffrey Skoller, Jim Supanick, Juliane Henrich, Joy Chan, Kathy Brew, Keith Sanbord, Kimmo Modig, Leo Goldsmith, Lynne Sachs, Mark Street, Masha Godovannaya, Mike Hoolboom, Monika Czyżyk, Nina Katchadourian, Olav Westphalen, Peggy Awesh, Perry Bard, Rebekah Rutkoff, Recycling Plastic Inevitable, Ricardo Domingues, Sean Cubitt, belit sağ & Sebastian Lütgert, Sebastián Romo, Steve Reinke, The Society of the Friends of the Virus, Thomas Zummer, Torsten Z. Burns, Wolfgang Staehle, yann beauvais, Zoe Beloff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Total occupancy will be capped at six. RSVP asap (i.e. reply to this e-mail), you will receive a confirmation. Please bring a mask: a major asbestos disaster is currently unfolding at Pirate Cinema Towers, and we don't want to share dear virus either. Pirate Cinema will provide a terrace and, if needed, an umbrella. PIRATE CINEMA RECOMMENDS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beirut over and over again / Beyrouth plusieurs fois fundraiser film screening Berlin, August 30th, 2020 at Hopscotch Reading Room (open air) door: 8.00 pm, screening: 9.00 pm TRAILER: https://piratecinema.org/trailers/beirut_2010_04_21.mp4 The explosions in Beirut on August 4th, 2020 have left at least 180 people dead, 6,000 injured and an estimated 300,000 displaced – many have lost family, lovers, homes and livelihoods. Protests against the encrusted political system represented by the Lebanese government that took place after the catastrophe were answered with more violence, tear gas & rubber bullets. A state of military emergency was declared and is threatening the freedom to protest and stand against a regime that has literally blown its citizens up. Meanwhile, the people of Beirut continue cleaning up their city’s streets, mourning their dead, worried sick about those that remain unfound and still counting the damages. We warmly invite you and your friends to come to an open air screening of short films by Hassan Julien Chehouri, Jocelyne Saab, Ghassan Salhab, Mohamed Soueid, and Siska to send our support from Berlin to Beirut on August 30th at Hopscotch Reading Room. Berlin is one of several cities where this program is taking place – Rotterdam, Paris, Marseille, Geneva, Montréal, Hamburg, Osnabrück –, and hopefully many more will follow. *** If you would like to suggest or organise screenings elsewhere, please get in touch with Nour Ouayda (Beirut) and Philip Widmann (Berlin): beirutoverandover at gmail.com In solidarity with the people of Beirut, all proceeds from these screenings will go towards initiatives that are directly supporting domestic workers, refugees, transgender and LGBTQ, offering basic food and rebuilding measures, as well as disaster relief for the arts (scroll down for details) https://piratecinema.org/images/prologue_hassan_julien_chehouri.jpg still from Prologue by Hassan Julien Chehouri Beirut over and over again / Beyrouth plusieurs fois fundraiser film screening August 30th, 2020 at Hopscotch Reading Room Kurfürstenstraße 14 (im Hof), 10785 Berlin Door: 8.00 pm Screening: 9.00 pm Suggested ticket price: 5-10 EUR additional cash donations can be made at the door Films Prologue Hassan Julien Chehouri | 2019 / 2020 | 30s | digital | English Beyrouth ma ville (Beirut my city) Jocelyne Saab | 1982 | 38’ | 16mm to digital file | French & Arabic with English subtitles Le Voyage immobile / على قد الشوق / As Far As Yearning Mohamed Soueid & Ghassan Salhab | 2017 | 23’ | digital | Arabic with English subtitles E.D.L. Siska | 2011 | 21’ | Super8 transferred to video | no dialog Donations Under the ongoing political and economical crisis in Lebanon, many people will remain dependent on support even after the damage of the explosion has been repaired. All proceeds from Beirut over and over again / Beyrouth plusieurs fois will be split equally amongst the following initiatives: - Egna Legna Besidet እኛ ለኛ በስደት: Fundraising for food and medicine for domestic workers affected by the explosion. Community-based feminist organisation working in Lebanon and Ethiopia and led by a former domestic worker. - Sawa for Development and Aid: Lebanese organisation that works with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. - Disaster Relief for the transgender community - Funding campaign for LGBTQ victims of the Beirut Explosion - Matbakh El Balad: Group of volunteer activists running food distribution. - Basmeh and Zeitooneh for Relief and Development: A foundation that supports the most marginalized communities in the Middle East. - Lebanon Solidarity Fund by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and Cultural Resource (Al Mawred al Thaquafi): An international fundraising campaign to support the culture and the arts community within Beirut under the Lebanon Solidarity Fund. The raised funds will be fully channelled to support affected arts and culture organizations and spaces based on the identification of urgent needs. The fund will also support individual artists who lost their homes, instruments and equipment. If you can’t attend the screening, please consider donating directly to these initiatives. https://www.facebook.com/events/1147666928950467 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- () >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org