Breathing Matter(s): Carte Blanche Abend – Old Believers & Partition

In the organizer's words:

silent green presents

As part of Breathing Matter(s) , Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor have selected two films for this evening that they would like to share and discuss with the audience.

Old Believers

An impressionistic and poetic portrait of a community of descendants of the Russian Orthodox Church living in the Danube Delta in present-day Romania. Hardly anything has changed here for 150 years - we witness their everyday life, beliefs and rituals. Guardian angels still watch over the people here, and a man walking on the moon is the ultimate utopia...

Partition

Partition interweaves archive footage from the British occupation of Palestine with sound recordings of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, tracing traces of continuity left behind by seismic displacement. Silent films preserved in imperial collections contain stories that have hardly been told - and colonial perspectives that continue to have an effect to the present day.

Sunday, July 20
Dome Hall
Start: 7 pm
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