Screening | Le Ping Pong d’Amour

In the organizer's words:

As part of the Spätschicht x Pop-Kultur Festival, Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art presents the docu-soap Le Ping Pong d'Amour in the Gropius Bau cinema.

Spätschicht - Live-Programm am Gropius Bau is a monthly series of free events with an interdisciplinary program ranging from concerts, talks, film screenings and book reviews to DJ sets. In addition to the screening, you can experience a tournament by Queer Ping Pong, performances by the Jimmy Robert class, a DJ set by Meg10 and a concert by Wa22ermann.

The first edition of Spätschicht opens with Queer Ping Pong: the participatory format combines table tennis with queer club culture and invites you to a tournament with six table tennis tables on the outdoor area of the Gropius Bau. Reason enough for Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art to bring the docu-soap Le Ping Pong d'Amour (1997-2005) by and with Team Ping Pong (Elfe Brandenburger, Esther Buss, Katja Eydel, Stephan Geene, Monika and Stefan Rinck, Klaus Weber, Cornelia and Mano Wittmann and others) back to the big screen.

‍Part 1 of Le Ping Pong d'Amour (Style, Work, Money, Love) begins with a shared flat that oscillates between the busy fantasy of "young entrepreneurs" and real life. At the beginning of Part 2 (Ideological State Apparatuses), five years have already passed. The flatmates meet up again; they have all become rich. Together they move into the Musée Rodin in Paris. In Part 3 (The Mission), after another five years, the group has scattered in all directions, this time all over the world: Damascus, Togo, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Cameroon, Berlin.

The Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art is a research and education center, archive, distributor, festival and cinema all in one. With its move from Potsdamer Platz to the silent green Kulturquartier, Arsenal will not have its own movie theater until the new cinema is completed in early 2026. The collaboration with Berlin cultural institutions such as the Gropius Bau, arthouse cinemas and partners of the Arsenal on Location project will help to continue and further expand the cinematic dialog during this time. onlocation.arsenal-berlin.de

During the event, photos and video recordings may be made in which you could be recognized. By attending, you consent to these recordings being used to communicate the event or exhibition.