In the lead-up to Think:Film, we are offering audiences the chance to get to know the work of some of the congress participants. On 7.10, LaborBerlin, the independent film laboratory in Stattbad Wedding, presents the results of the "Analogue Zone" workshop, the first part of which took place in Cairo. Four Egyptian workshop participants are in Berlin in October to learn more about working with analogue film material in the laboratory here. LaborBerlin’s Cairo partner is Cimateque, a center for independent filmmaking co-founded by Tamer El-Said and Khalid Abdalla, both of whom are panelists at the Think:Film congress. Following the workshop presentation, there is the rare chance to see the Egyptian-Italian experimental film SUMMER 70 by Nagy Shaker and Paolo Isaja, "a meditation on freedom at the turn of the 1970s that utilizes the full vocabulary of experimental cinema" (MoMA). Nagy Shaker will be attending the discussion.
