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The film JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971 (1980) by Yvonne Rainer played an important role in the preparations for Alex Baczyński-Jenkins new performance work, which he will present in the Lichthof of the Martin Gropius Bau on March 14th and 15th. On the evening of this event we are showing the restored version of Yvonne Rainer's film in the exhibition space’s cinema auditorium as part of Arsenal on Location.
Rainer was inspired to make this biting, often funny meditation on state power, oppression, violence and revolution by her experiences in West Berlin while on a DAAD residency in 1976/77. JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971 shifts between aerial shots of British landscapes, intertitles, fragments of Rainer’s diary from when she was a teenager and a discussion by an unseen couple (spoken by Amy Taubin und Vito Acconci) about the fall of the Red Army Faction.
Art and film critic Annette Michelson plays a psychoanalysis patient, while filmmaker Cynthia Beatt appears in the sequences in Berlin.
Thu, March 13, 7.30 pm
Introduction: Sabeth Buchmann
JOURNEYS FROM BERLIN/1971 • Yvonne Rainer • USA 1980 • engl. OV • 124’
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7,Berlin, Germany
