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Film evening accompanying the exhibition ‘Today yet, tomorrow surely. Filmic Perspectives on Berlin Around 1990’ at the nGbK. With director Melissa Dullius.
Regular: Free of charge
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13
10178 Berlin
2h
A film by Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn. BR/DE 2016. Brazilian Portuguese / German / English / Japanese with English subtitles.
Melissa’s and Gustavo’s adventure begins aboard a container ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship takes them from Brazil to Berlin, a city in constant motion, where the old is constantly being replaced by the new. The couple finds a home there and transforms it into the centre of their personal universe.
As time passes, the boundary between life and cinema becomes blurred. The couple’s flat evolves into a stage where friends are invited to play their own roles, and reality and fiction merge. Until one day, a cosmic portal opens there, connecting the past, present and future.
Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn, active since 2006 as the artist duo ‘Distruktur’, draw on autobiographical and fantastical elements. They weave their experiences in Berlin into a colourful tapestry of memories, encounters and dreams. The duo conceives filmmaking as a personal as well as collective endeavour and themselves as wanderers on a journey through space and time.
Film: 72 minutes
Afterwards: Director Melissa Dullius in conversation with curators Suy Lan Hopmann and Florian Wüst.
In cooperation with neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK).
About the film series
The film series accompanying the exhibition ‘Heute noch, morgen schon’ (Today yet, tomorrow surely) at the Museum Nikolaikirche highlights the changes Berlin has undergone since the end of division from a variety of perspectives. Documentary and experimental films show personal stories, social ruptures and continuities, as well as artistic interventions. Each evening, at least one director will be present to talk to curators Suy Lan Hopmann and Florian Wüst and provide insights into their work and the period in which the films were made.
The film series is being held in cooperation with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Büro für Dramaturgie, Gropius Bau, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) and Stadtteilzentrum KREATIVHAUS.