Film Program: Terms and Conditions #02: Oct. 15 & 16, 2024, 8 pm, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin
After the two very well-attended film screenings and discussion evenings at the Arsenal Cinema, which we organized in September as part of our research project “Terms and Conditions: The Legal Form of Images,” we are organizing two further evenings on October 15 and 16. This second part focuses on films that deal with the historical continuity of coloniality and its legal contexts. The search for truth, documentary and fictional, correlates analysis, criticism and emotion. With Marcel Dickhage and Cathleen Schuster (titre provisoire), Tom Holert and Doreen Mende (both HaFI).
Terms and Conditions #02: Continuity of coloniality and (neo)colonial legal processes
Tue. October 15., 8 p.m.
Introduction: Cathleen Schuster/Marcel Dickhage (titre provisoire), followed by a video conversation with Jean-Marie Teno
How is a complaint made, an accusation performed? How is German colonialism repressed and how does it find its administrative continuation in today’s institutions? LE MALENTENDU COLONIAL (The Colonial Misunderstanding, 2004) by Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno examines the connections between the church and German colonialism in Namibia using the example of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft. A LONG WAY FROM AMPHIOXUS (2019), a short film by Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari, looks at the administration of migration and asks how the law relates to people who come up against the borders of nation states, where they are turned to numbers in bureaucratic processes.
A LONG WAY FROM AMPHIOXUS
Dir.: Kamal Aljafari, Germany, 2019, digital file, original version with English subtitles (original language: German), 16 min.
LE MALENTENDU COLONIAL
Dir.: Jean-Marie Teno, Cameroon/France/Germany, 2004, digital file, original version with English subtitles (original languages: English, French, German), 78 min.
Location: Arsenal Cinema 1
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Wed. October 16, 8 p.m.
Introduction: : Tom Holert und Doreen Mende (HaFI)
A courtyard in Bamako becomes the courtroom of a fictitious trial that the citizens of the capital of Mali are conducting against the neo-colonial policies of ‘structural adjustment’ enacted by the World Bank, the IMF and other international donors, as well against the governments of African states. The trial shares the filmic space with a western and other narrative inserts and components. With his highly self-conscious, docu-realist film BAMAKO, Abderrahmane Sissako (TIMBUKTU, BLACK TEA) conceived an early example of the ‘tribunalism’ that around the same time started to occur in contemporary art and performance venues.
BAMAKO
Dir.: Abderrahmane Sissako, France/Mali/USA, 2006, digital file, original version with English subtitles (original languages: Bambara and French), 118 min.
Location: Arsenal Cinema 1
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