Arsenal Making Space: killer.berlin.doc

The Kino Arsenal launched its opening programme Raumgeben, a long-term series of film and discussion events centered on the question of the role of cinemas and other cultural venues in the political and social present.

It continues on a monthly basis in cooperation with changing institutions and initiatives. In June, silent green will be a guest contributor.

As part of Raumgeben, the film killer.berlin.doc (Germany 1999) by Bettina Ellerkamp and Jörg Heitmann will be screened on June 1 at the new Arsenal cinema.

This will be followed by a discussion with the two filmmakers and Daniel Wesener, a member of the Berlin House of Representatives and spokesperson for cultural funding for the parliamentary group Alliance 90/The Greens, focusing on urban development and culture since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The discussion will be moderated by cultural scholar Annette Maechtel, whose research focuses on Berlin as a political and discursive space.
 
Monday, June 1
Kino Arsenal
Start: 8 pm
Tickets
 

killer.berlin.doc  
Bettina Ellerkamp and Jörg Heitmann
GER 1999 74‘

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)