A Night at the Archive – Redux (Avi Mograbi)

The results of a "night of chance": In fall 2011, Avi Mograbi invited the audience to visit Arsenal's film vault in Spandau. He asked Living Archive participants to think up systems for calculating random numbers and used these to take films off the shelves. Their first act was then viewed. That's how a random, idiosyncratic program came about that also includes the film that gave our cinema its name: ARSENAL by Alexander Dovzhenko (USSR 1928). We are presenting the film to open the Living Archive program on 4.6. after showing the other random films in their entirety: LA HORA DE LOS HORNOS (Argentina 1968, 1.6.), THE FIRST TEACHER (Kyrgyzstan 1965, 2.6.), GHETTO (Switzerland 1997, 3.6.), POLICE (USA 1916) and 12 ANGRY MEN (USA 1957, 5.6.).