August 22 + 23: 2x Pirate Cinema

[pirate cinema berlin]

              Saturday: Watch Pirate Cinema say: I won't share and I don't care!

              Sunday: Watch Pirate Cinema burn their honorarium, on the internet

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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!)

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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

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