‘Rooftop Film screening III curated by Lior Shamriz’

23.05.2015.17:00-22:00PM

Space One presents a one day film screening curated by Lior Shamriz.
Magic is merely domestic. Dignity is merely domestic.
The poet is stepping out of the airplane.
My house is merely domestic. I live in my house; my skin lives in my house. We are domestic. My house is merely domestic. We are a lie to disguise the nature of art. (Jack Spencer) This is a collection of voices alienated from spaces, films that examine a distance between an inner-narration and the room, streets, alleys they inhabit.
Each film a particular facet. Some dysfunctional, some not. Exiles from space itself. We were falsely taught to see “true” cinema as the negation of this distance. Rather - as a conjunction of self and the place. To avoid this trap, to transcend this obstacle is to allow the poet to become a body in a room, even for a bit.
The hopelessness of a poetess in an eternally xenophobic society; The future another one finds in a leper colony; The self-pity of a murderer in a decaying territory. Space One transforms momentarily into a multiplicity of visual voices with the presentation of different films in different rooms, on different screens.

-Lior Shamriz - 

· Dissolution (2012) / Nina Menkes
Loosely inspired by Dostoevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, 'DISSOLUTION' combines an almost surreal fairy-tale energy with brutal black and white realism to explore the condition of violence. Filmed in Jaffa / Tel Aviv by American filmmaker Nina Menkes.

· The Seventh Walk (2013) / Amit Dutta
Led by mysterious sounds and footprints, a painter wanders within a surreal space of the forest, his own paintings and oneiric spaces.As seen in this meditation on art and interpretation, Indian abstract painter Paramjit Singh’s landscape paintings of the Kangra Valley open a free play of imagination, evoking diverse Eastern and Western, classical and folk associations, from Sanskrit poet Kalidasa and local myths and legends to haiku and Alice in Wonderlan

· Maillart Bridges (2001) / Heinz Emigholz
In this captivating and informative documentary, award-winning filmmaker Heinz Emigholz continues his exploration of architecture as autobiography by examining the work of legendary bridge-builder Robert Maillart, who revolutionized concrete based construction.

· The House is Black (1963) / Forough Farrokhzad
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes “ugliness,” of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

· L’amour sauvage (2014) / Lior Shamriz
Lost love, lost artistic collaboration, the two are meeting for one night as she briefly visits the city where he still lives.

· Semra Ertan (2014) / Cana Bilir-Meier
Semra Ertan was born in Turkey in 1956. She worked as an interpreter and wrote over 350 poems. In 1982 she burnt herself to death in Hamburg to protest against xenophobia and racism in Germany.

- This Unwieldy Object (2014) / Anna Zett
The animated dinosaurs of blockbuster cinema meet the petrified ghosts of colonial history.