Different Frames of Return
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free admission |
English |
Ground Floor, Hall 2 |
Belongs to: Histories of Tanzania |
Different Frames of Return: short film “Apostles of Cinema”
The collective “ajabu ajabu” has set itself the objective of making films from Tanzania and the region accessible to a wider local audience and relating it to one another in carefully curated programmes.
Apostles of Cinema portrays the informal cinema structures in the Tanzanian metropolis of Dar es Salaam and contradicts the prevailing cliche 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 Tanzania’s extraordinarily vibrant film cultures and at the same time a statement in favor of solidarity-based distribution structures and the passionate live character of film screenings.
The screening of Apostles of Cinema will be followed by a discussion between director Gertrude Malizeni and curator Jacob Häberli about the reinterpretation of genres and the visualization of history(s).
Gertrude Malizeni is a creative filmmaker & multidisciplinary artist devoted to telling stories as a means of documenting, archiving, and preserving the lived histories of women.
Jacob Häberli is a historian and curator from Berlin, who works at the intersection of memory, heritage, history of resistance and urbanization.