Das Kino Projekt
The Cinema Project
Germany / 2021 Installation / Original version with German subtitles
Original language
English, Arabic
Installation
DAS KINO PROJEKT is a traveling movie theater screening an archive of amateur analog film, on Super 8 and 16mm, side by side with video works from international visual artists and filmmakers. It is an on-site installation investing in new and temporary locations as it travels from one city to another. Following in-depth research of the respective city’s cinema history, the Kino takes on the name of a former movie theatre that was closed down, demolished, or transformed. As part of Forum Expanded, DAS KINO PROJEKT shows a selection of its neon signs, which were produced for each city the cinema has visited in the past ten years. The project started in Beirut and is a homage to vanished cinema culture worldwide. In 2011 the DAS KINO PROJEKT traveled to Aleppo and, due to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, could not be realized on site.
Directors Franziska Pierwoss, Siska a.k.a Elie Habib. Producer Siska a.k.a Elie Habib.
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