Sunday September 6 from 9 pm - Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember

[pirate cinema berlin]

Um nach längerer Zeit endlich mal wieder unsere eigene Einladung zu unserem 
Abendprogramm vom 29. Mai 2005(1) zu zitieren:

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Vor dem Kino findet, diesmal nicht neben dem Kino im Monbijoupark, dafür aber 
neben dem Gleisdreieckspark, nämlich bei Hopscotch, ein Fest der Zeitschrift 
Starship statt, zu dessen Besuch wir ebenfalls herzlich einladen. Insbesondere 
raten wir zum Kauf von Ariane Müllers Roman "Handbuch für eine Reise durch 
Afrika"(2), der, zwischenzeitlich vergriffen, ab Sonntag in zweiter Auflage 
vorliegen wird, zusammen mit (neu!) Hans-Christan Dany, Annette Wehrmann (auf 
Englisch) und dem Kippenberger-Buch namens "Stellen Sie sich vor, ein Mond
scheint am Himmel".(3) Ins Kino kommen sie dann relativ einfach mit der U1.
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                                                                   PIRATE CINEMA
                                                                    SEASON EIGHT
                                                                     SECOND WAVE

                                                                          Sunday
                                                                     September 6
                                                                       from 9 pm

                                        Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember
                                                             Khavn, 2016, 88 min
                                                  Trailer: https://pad.ma/LAA/MD

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Khavn's 2016 "Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember" was a clear audience 
favorite in our 2-hour cut-up sneak preview program that ran here in March(4),
and to us, or at least to me, it seems to have aged rather well since then - 
tempted to say it makes for an excellent corona reconfinement program. Instead 
of spoiling it for you, lets just quote, for those unfamiliar with the director,
the invitation to our 2015 Squatterpunk + Mondomanila double screening(5):

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The planet of slums whose other half we inhabit may have a hundred words for
misery, yet none of them conveys the full horror of what cinema usually makes
of it: a parade of victims, a spectacle of empathy, a self-fulfilling prophecy
that claims, comfortingly, that none of what can be seen can ever be imagined.
Enter Khavn, who, five minutes into any of his films, will not only have made a
complete and compelling argument for the power of imagination, inventiveness,
exaggeration and bad taste, but also deliver a fully plausible demonstration of
how to make engaged cinema in a slum: simply by engaging the slum. And what he
engages the slum in turns out to be one of the most truthful parodies of mondo
filmmaking in recent memory, where the genre-specific boundaries of horror,
exploitation, science fiction, musical, queer cinema and political documentary
don't "blur", but in fact quite sharply align with the limits of the territory,
where each genre-bending turn of events traces an actual social bifurcation.
It's still "trash", but in a fashion that hopefully increases the appreciation
of trash as material, resource, habitat, system, principle and philosophy.
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PIRATE CINEMA SEASON EIGHT SECOND WAVE is a one-time event. We will be back 
when things are a bit colder. Until then: "Always isolate, never separate!"(TM)

(1) https://piratecinema.org/screenings/20050529
(2) https://piratecinema.org/images/handbuch.jpg
(2) https://piratecinema.org/images/starship.jpg
(3) https://piratecinema.org/videos/S08E01.txt
(4) https://piratecinema.org/screenings/20150802

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