Δ FILM PROGRAMME

“Hip Hop, Madness and Method”

Dr. Marie-Hélène Gutberlet (Film scholar and curator, Frankfurt)

The street plays a key role, both politically and artistically, in the experimental short films and music clips being produced in Dakar today. The street is a public space of negotiations, a location fusing and blending music, politics, illness and spiritual rituals. As a performative space, the city also influences image production. Since the 1980s, the Senegalese cinema of filmmakers Djibril Diop Mambety, Ousmane Sembene or Moussa Sene Absa has included narrative references to the individual elements of this urbanity.

Now, through the integration of elements of hip-hop, psychiatry, graffiti and grass-roots democracy, contemporary music and image production has taken a new direction.

With short films by Elì Roland Sachs and Ismaël Thiam, and clips by Malal Talla/Fou malade, Xuman and the Y’en a marre collective (Thiat, Kilifeu, Fou malade, Simon, Bagdhad, Keyti and others). Introduction by Marie-Hélène Gutberlet.

Marie-Hélène Gutberlet is a curator, author and film scholar based in Frankfurt. Co-founder of the "reel to real" experimental film series (held in Frankfurt since 2003), she also co-initiated the "Migration & Media" project with its series of international symposia and exhibition projects, most recently "The Space Between Us" (Berlin and Stuttgart 2013–2014). Together with Tobias Hering, she is the co-artistic director of the collaborative translocal project "Visionary Archive" (Berlin, Bissau, Johannesburg, Cairo, Khartoum, 2013-2015), the initiator of the "African Cinema Series#2" (in the Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, since 2013) and publishing editor of the online magazine future-memories.org (2015).

Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai 37
Wednesday, 10th June, 7pm

Introduction in German, short films in English.
€5 / reduced €2.50

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Δ ARTIST'S TALK

“Science and the Amateur Researcher”

Syafiatudina (Curator, Indonesia)

Guest Curator Syafiatudina discusses her work with the collection of the Weltkulturen Museum and the development of her exhibition project for the Green Room.

Syafiatudina is a fellow on the foundation KfW Stiftung's programme “Curators in Residence - Curating Collections” at the Weltkulturen Museum. During her residency, she developes the exhibition project “Gloves in Action” in the Weltkulturen Labor. The exhibition is due to open in the Green Room on 8th July.

Syafiatudina is a member of the KUNCI Cultural Studies Center in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In Indonesia, KUNCI is regarded as a cultural studies pioneer and regularly organises artistic research and exhibitions. Founded in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in 1999, KUNCI has primarily focused on critical knowledge production and sharing via media publications, cross-disciplinary encounters, research actions and artistic interventions.

KfW Stiftung's programme “Curators in Residence” offers outstanding young curators from Latin America, Africa and Asia a chance to spend several months in Germany with the objective of promoting intellectual exchange in exhibition practice.

Weltkulturen Labor
Schaumainkai 37
Wednesday, 24th June, 7pm

In English.
€5 / reduced €2.50

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