Auguste Orts
Newsletter #17, an evening with Auguste Orts #7: AFAVA

Wednesday February 03, 20.30, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
Talk & screening. Admission free

AFAVA is the Berlin-based platform for distribution and reflection established by audiovisual artists Clemens von Wedemeyer, Guy Ben-Ner, Laura Horelli, Yael Bartana, Hito Steyerl, Norman Richter, Koken Ergun and Maya Schweizer. Auguste Orts invites co-founders/filmmakers von Wedemeyer and Schweizer for a talk on the workings of AFAVA, including a full screening program by its members www.afava.org

TANKLOVE
Koken Ergun (7', 2008, DENMARK)
An unusual war-evoking image - a tank - appears unexpectedly in a small village, without being experienced as shocking

PASSING DOWN, FRAME ONE
Maya Schweizer (10'30", 2007, FR)
Puzzling with recordings from her grandmother, Schweizer tries to reconstruct a piece of personal history

YOU GO WHERE YOU ARE SENT
Laura Horelli (19', 2003, FI)
A study of Horelli's grandmother, a doctor and a diplomat's wife

AGAINST DEATH
Clemens von Wedemeyer (09'50", 2009, GB/DE)
An explorer has come back to London, tired and shaken from an expedition into the jungle. He is seen telling his anthropologist friend about an ancient ritual he undertook with a remote tribe that granted him immortality. The explorer demonstrates his inability to die - and everything seamlessly loops back to the beginning

TREMBLING TIME
Yael Bartana (06'30", 2001, IL/NL)
There are not many things that can make the traffic on a motorway come to a standstill. In a place where people collectively do the same thing - move from A to B - the reason for stopping has to be more urgent than the individual will



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