Different Frames of Return. Film und Gespräch zu „Apostles of Cinema“

In the organizer's words:

Different Frames of Return: short film "Apostles of Cinema". The collective "ajabu ajabu" has set itself the task of making filmmaking in Tanzania and the region accessible to a wider local audience and relating it to one another in carefully curated programs.

Apostles of Cinema portrays the informal cinema structures in the Tanzanian metropolis of Dar es Salaam and contradicts the prevailing cliché that it has no distinct cinema culture. The short film documents the working methods of the dealers, distributors and cinema owners who distribute films of all kinds and thus determine the local and international canon of the audience. It is also about collective appropriation and radical forms of accessibility, such as reinterpretation and film dubbing. Apostles of Cinema is a window into the extraordinarily vibrant film cultures of Tanzania and at the same time a statement for solidarity-based distribution structures and the passionate live character of film screenings.

The screening of Apostles of Cinema will be followed by a discussion with director Gertrude Malizeni about the reinterpretation of genres and the visualization of history(ies).

Gertrude Malizeni is a creative filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist dedicated to storytelling in order to document, archive and preserve the diverse experiences of women.

- free of charge

- Language: English

- Room 2, ground floor

- Belongs to: History(ies) of Tanzania