Society of Cinema: Screening and Artist Talk
For our last iteration of the Society of Cinema for 2019, we screen a short film, a feature film, host a discussion and a party after.
Join us in celebrating the end of an exciting and busy year with the Museum of Impossible Forms with its 100th event of 2019.
Schedule
16:00 Doors Open
16:30 Introductions
16:45 ШАГ by nucbeade
17:00 So Pretty by Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
18:30 break
19:00 skype conversation on seeking audiences w/ filmmakers Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli & Hanan Mahbouba, and the current curator of Society of Cinema, Danai Anagnostou.
20:00 End of Year Bloody Mary Party
ШАГ - Nucbeade
Science Fiction
13' 50'' / 2017
ШАГ /shag/ is a polysemic word that means, in Russian, move, passing, or motion from one foot to another.
ШАГ is a filmed performative act, an SF film in which aesthetics and resources of contemplative cinema and new media art (glitch and code re-writing) coexist.
nucbeade proposes a space of exile, a physical and mental one. A reconfigured by error place of resistance. Here, nature has ceased to be a consumable and romantic decoration to become another more character.
ШАГ, as a video installation, has been part of the collective exhibition "Capitalo, Chthulu and a Much Hotter Compost Pile" (Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin). It has also been selected by the online/offline exhibition QueerTech.io 2018 and showed at RMIT:ART:INTERSECT Spare Room (Melbourne) and at MELT Festival in Brisbane.
So Pretty - Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
Drama
83' / 2019
Four young queers in New York City struggle to maintain their proto-utopian community against the outside world as their lives curiously merge with the 1980s German novel so schön by Ronald M. Schernikau.
A transgender visual artist, Tonia, comes to New York City in 2018, where she meets her American boyfriend, the academic Franz, and works on an new exhibition of a work built around the legacy of German author Ronald M. Schernikau. Tonia and Franz talk politics, art, and love, go dancing, drink coffee, fuck, protest, and organize alongside their friends, the couple Paul and Erika, a transwoman and musician, and Helmut, a transmaculine political radical. When Paul becomes injured by the police following a political action, their social space is momentarily shattered. At the same time, the audience comes to realize that their lives and the film are morphing into a version of Schernikau’s novella so schön, a communist-themed depiction of four lovers in 1980s Berlin, read aloud by the characters throughout the film in voice-over and at the art installation. The film is overlaid with a mosaic of music from Rachika S, who also plays Erika, and a host of female electronic musicians.
An investigation of leftist politics and femme identity in the context of an increasingly right wing world, So Pretty moves freely between fictional depictions and semi-documentary, adaptation and translation, looking towards the artistic and personal worlds its characters generate across time and culture as a space for new tensions and potentials.
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The Screening will be followed by a Skype Conversation with director Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli and the current curator of Society of Cinema, Danai Anagnostou. We will be joined by filmmaker Hanan Mahbouba.
The evening will conclude with drinks and snacks and we invite you to stay and enjoy music played by the House.
Museum of Impossible Forms is a cultural space, located in Kontula, Helsinki. It is a contested Space and it represents a contact zone, a space of unlearning, formulating identity constructs, norm-critical consciousness and critical thinking. Impossible Forms are those that erase and facilitate the process of transgressing the boundaries/borders between art, politics, practice, theory, the artist and the spectator. For 2019-2020, Museum of Impossible Forms operates under the curatorial theme of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’
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