Cinema Can Do In-Between Spaces  

It can seem pretty difficult in the meantime to bear in-between spaces: between art and cinema, theory and practice, institutional events and independent ones. Between before and after, this side and the other side, here and there. Between the aesthetic and the political. Between dream and reality, loud and quiet, analogue and digital.
Between two films, the light goes on – or it stays off. The images and sounds of the previous film continue to reverberate, body and spirit relax for a second or are distracted by the need to grab drinks or snacks in the darkness of the cinema. The question of what is coming next burrows into the unknown film that is now to follow.
This short film program examines the “before the film” and “after the film” and what happens in between them. With sounds and images and appearances by Bruce Baillie, Ibrahim Shaddat, Ayse Erkmen, Clarissa Thieme, Maria Thereza Alves, Haytham el-Wardany, Joyce Wieland. (stss)

Program:
All My Life Bruce Baillie USA 1966 16 mm 3 Min.
The Sound of the Depth of the Sea Ibrahim Shaddat Sudan/Egypt 2024 DCP 3 Min.
Coffee Ayse Erkmen Turkey 2007 Digital file 25 Min.
Today is 11th June 1993 Clarissa Thieme D/Bosnia and Herzegowina 2018 DCP 15 Min.
Bruce Lee in the Land of Balzac Maria Thereza Alves France 2007 Digital file 3 Min.
Reflections From The Storm Reading by Haytham el-Wardany (in English) 15 Min.
Handtinting Joyce Wieland Canada 1967 16 mm 6 Min.