The thing with Pirate Cinema

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                                                    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

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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

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* 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
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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
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