arsenal on location – Sommerkino: killer.berlin.doc

silent green presents

The new Arsenal in silent green will open in January – in a cold winter month. That's why the Arsenal is already inviting people to open-air screenings to showcase the outdoor area in the warm sunshine. Each of the three July evenings will begin with a short guided tour and a refreshing drink – an opportunity to share thoughts and open questions about the new location. The move from Potsdamer Platz to Wedding continues to have an impact, and so three films from three generations will be presented, all about moving to Berlin, moving through Berlin or moving away from Berlin.

The summer cinema starts with the hosts, who will also be guests on the opening evening, as Bettina Ellerkamp and Jörg Heitmann, the founders of silent green, are also filmmakers. Shortly before the turn of the millennium, they made killer.berlin.doc (D 1999).

killer.berlin.doc  
Bettina Ellerkamp and Jörg Heitmann
GER 1999 74‘
Introductory talk 9 pm, film starts at 9:30 pm
Moderation: Stefanie Schulte Strathaus

In May 1998, ten people decide to turn their lives in Berlin into fiction for a fortnight in order to tell the story of their own lives in a changing city. They play “Killer”, a game in which no one knows about the others and everyone is both perpetrator and victim. The task is to find a predetermined person, unknown to the player, and come up with the perfect “murder” for the “victim”. Knowing that someone is following their own tracks at the same time, the players set off in search of the unknown person. "killer.berlin.doc is a multifaceted documentary film with fictional elements, a subjective artist portrait film, a rarely beautiful architectural film about Berlin in transition, a polyphonic diary about two weeks in May 1998. The filmmakers' collective combines the various filming techniques [...] in an aesthetically convincing way. Here, Berlin is simultaneously a blue-tinged dreamscape, a projection of different desires, a jumble of the most diverse architectures." (Detlef Kuhlbrodt)

Tuesday, July 8
Courtyard
Start: 8 pm
Tickets

The screening will take place with headphones.
The film will be screened in the original German version.
 

Arsenal on Location is funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds