Pirate Cinema 2


 Berlin, World Capital of Negativity
Sunday,  January 11, 2009.
7 pm - 10 pm
at CAMP rooftop.


           Ticket of No Return
       directed by Ulrike Ottinger
with Tabea Blumenschein, Nina Hagen,
Eddie Constantine, Martin Kippenberger
         1979, 110 mins, 1.4 GB

            Possession
  directed by Andrzej Zulawski
 with Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill,
Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent
        1981, 120 mins, 1 GB


" BERLIN, name - polabian: "swamp", vulgar: "built on sand"; a "political
abstraction" (Maurice Blanchot), a "position from which there is no escape"
(Joseph Goebbels), a "conglomerate of calamities" (Frank Wedekind), a "curse"
(Alfred Döblin); an "attitude of defiance mingled with self-conceit" (Walter
Benjamin), the political condition of being "poor but sexy" (Klaus Wowereit)

NEGATIVITY, noun - organized negation, collective expression of antagonism,
denial or refutation, application of destructive forces within a political
struggle that is not aimed at a positive goal and usually directed against the
state and its organs; critical negativity - to employ the power of negation in a
critical situation: "I have been hit by a taxi", "my wife has left me", etc.;
dialectical negativity - the negatively dialectical reversal of the concept of
negative dialectics, negativity applied to itself, affirming - but refusing to
accept as total or self-identical - the object of negation: "no future", "punk's
not dead" etc.; historical-political negativity - any sustained political effort
that aims to make the sum of a specific historical process less than zero.
Commonly cited causes of negativity: bad weather, bad food, bad housing, the
Great Depression, the Cold War, the German Reunification (see: Berlin)

TO CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF A CITY, expression - 1. to drink oneself to death: to
capture the spirits of a city (to never return from a city); 2. to find the
monster one's wife is having an affair with: to chase the ghosts of a city (to
be possessed by a city); 3. to build a wall around a city (see: negativity)"

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pirate cinema bombay
 sundays from 7 to 10
www.piratecinema.org

    CAMP Rooftop
301 Alif Apartments
34A Chuim Village
     Khar West

                                                              
for directions:
http://camputer.org/campstudio.html

Pirate Cinema Bombay

Pirate Cinema from Berlin, who we are working with on the video archive
http://pad.ma, present a series of weekly (Sunday) events in the Pirate Cinema tradition, on films and footage.



Asia Pacific Triennial

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.

6:00-8:00 pm

الجار قبل الدار The Neighbour Before the House

Film screening, and conversation 6-8:00 pm

The Neighbour before the House

Geographies of Belonging

Visiting Artist Lecture Series

From Land to Sea

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

Vertical Integration

We are proposing this term to think more broadly about extraction, waste, dependency, rear-guarding, mediatic conversions, in- and out-sourcing, and other aspects of chains of translation and steps of decision and production.

Footage Films, Or Narrating a Dataset

with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)

We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)

From the Roof to the Sky

The Neighbour before the House
+
A Stone's Throw

August 1 – 7:30 pm
August 7 – 7:30 pm
August 12 – 7:30 pm
August 31 – 7:30 pm
with filmmaker q&a

Inlaks Fine Art Awardees 2024

CROWDED HOUSE
machines, skins, traps and five-year plans

CAMP, Urvar and Studio ON invite you to a one-day Open House of artworks and interactions with the 2024 Inlaks Fine Art Awardees, who have been in residence in Borivali for the past 4 weeks.

All Events