Slowly learning to survive the desire to simplify - The Film Program

The film program takes place at:

(please visit the following websites for the specific address and screening times)


23 - 24 August:

Soria Moria Kino in collaboration with UKS in Oslo, Norway
Vogtsgate 64, 0477 Oslo, ph. (+47) 22195050
www.uks.no
www.soria-moria.net

1 - 2 September:

Exhibitions space rum46 in Århus, Denmark
Studsgade 46, st. tv. 8000 Århus C, ph. (+45) 8620 8625
www.rum46.dk

6 and 13 September:

Goethe Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden
Bryggargatan 12A, 111 21 Stockholm, ph. +46 8 45912-00
www.goethe.de/ins/se/sto/svindex.htm

6 - 7 September:

Galleri Box in Göteborg, Sweden
Kastellgatan 10, SE-411 22 Göteborg, ph. +46 (0)31 13 20 37
www.galleribox.se

9 - 10 and 12 September

Ålands museum in Mariehamn, Åland
Stadshusparken, FIN-22100 Mariehamn, ph. +358 (0)18 25426
In collaboration with Galleri Kakelhallen and Ålands konstmuseum
www.aland-museum.aland.fi

11 - 12 September:

CirkulationsCentralen in Malmö, Sweden
Nobelvägen 125, SE-214 42 Malmö
www.cirkulationscentralen.com


12 - 13, 19 and 20 September

Titanik in Turku, Finland
Itäinen Rantakatu, FIN - 20700 Turku, ph. +358 (0)2 23 38 372
www.arte.fi

The film program includes:


Day 1:

Lavorare con Lentezza
By Guido Chiesa and Wu Ming. Italy, 2004, 111 min.

The Gladiators
By Peter Watkins. Sweden, 1969, 90 min.


Day 2:

This Day
By Akram Zataari. Lebanon, 2003, 90 minutes.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised/ Chavez: Inside the Coup
By Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain. Ireland, 2003, 74 minutes.




Lavorare Con Lentezza ( to work slowly)

Directed by Guido Chiesa. Writing credits, Guido Chiesa and Wu Ming.
Italy, 2004, In Italian with English subtitles, 111 minutes

Italy. The 70's. Along with the birth of a free Radio in Bologna (Radio Alice) and the political developments of the radical Italian left, two young men get in touch with a new consciousness which is spreading among the youth. Getting by daily and refusal of given destiny is their way of life, while tragedies surround them. (During a rally a student is shot to death in front of them (real story), a friend of them is sent to prison for the beating up of a moneylender). Directed with a subtle touch, no rhetoric, no stereotype. There's no judgment, the only aim is just to tell a story. The Italian Seventies are righteously described without taboo. Just watch it and have a two-hours-real-good-time!


The Gladiators

By Peter Watkins
The Peace Game / Gladiatorerna, Sweden, 1969, with English subtitles, 90 minutes.

‘The Gladiators’ is a bleak satire set in the near future, in which the major powers of the world, East and West, aligned and non-aligned, recognize the possibility of a major world war within our lifetime, and try to forestall it by channeling man’s aggressive instincts in a more controllable manner. They do this by forming an International Commission along the lines of the United Nations, dedicated to fighting a series of contests between teams of selected soldiers from each country. These competitions, which can be fought to the death, are called ‘Peace Games’, and are broadcast on global television via satellite - complete with sponsors and commercials. The film follows Game 256, which is being ‘played’ in the International Peace Game Centre near Stockholm, under the controlling eye of a highly sophisticated computer, hired out to the International Commission by the (neutral) Swedish Army. The international group of officers watching Game 256 decide to eliminate a man and a woman from opposing teams who reach out to each other, because they decide that such forms of communication would be the gravest threat of all to the stability of the existing world-system.


This Day

Directed and written by Akram Zataari.
Lebanon, 2003, with English subtitles, 90 minutes.

Shot between Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, this essay superposes modes of transportation, video, and photography to comment on our society’s relationship to iconography, modernity, and questions the meaning and value of documents.


The Revolution Will Not Be Televised/Chavez Inside the Coup

Directed and photographed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain
Ireland, 2003, Spanish with English subtitles, 74 minutes

"We (the coup organisers) had a deadly weapon: the media."
Vice-Admiral Victor Ramírez Pérez, speaking on Venevision, a private channel, April 11, 2002

Hugo Chavez, was elected president of Venezuela in 1998. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état. It's a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela "Washington’s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba."