Sense of Place

Friday, June 25th, 2021, 21:00

Screening venue
SummerKino at HeK
Curator: Chantal Molleur

FILM PROGRAM

This past year has changed our sense of place leaving us to rethink our views of our cities and our interactions. The term has been used in many different ways. Edward Casey wrote in his 1998 book called The Fate of Place on our sense of place. He wrote about the term also used in relation to those characteristics that make a place special or unique, as well as to those that foster a sense of authentic human attachment and belonging.

For our first SummerKino program, we dive into unique cinematographic proposals, meet with eccentric characters on personal journeys and unconventional lifestyles. The protagonists are searching, living or wishing for a better sense of belonging. Their quests are unconventional and pushing the established norms for another vision for tomorrow.

The End of Suffering (a proposal)
A film by Jacqueline Lentzou
Greece, 2020, 14 min, fiction, Greek with English subtitles

Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.

NEW GODS
A film by Loïc Hobi
Suisse/France, 2020, 19 mins, French with English subtitles

User LonerWolf58 is part of the incel community. They consider themselves as involuntary celibate. His videos have been reported for violent and terrorist content. I have to make him disappear from the net.

TIE (ELO)
A film by Xá (Alexandra Ramires)
Portugal, France, 2020, 11 min 39, no dialog

Two figures with different physical impairments find their way to one other under a hazy sun. They have nothing to hide from each other: one’s shortcoming is the other’s strength.

All Cats are Grey in the Dark
A film by Lasse Linder
Switzerland, 2019, 18 mins, Swiss-German , German with English subtitles

He calls himself „Catman“. Christian lives with his two cats Marmelade and Katjuscha. They are inseparable. As he is yearning to become a father, he decides to fertilize his beloved cat Marmelade by an exquisite tomcat from abroad. “All Cats Are Grey In The Dark” is a melodrama that portrays an unconventional relationship between animal and human.

Planet City
A film by Liam Young
USA, 2020, 16 mins, no dialog

Humans dominate the planet. As a consequence of hundreds of years of colonisation, globalisation and never-ending economic extraction and expansionism we have remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. But what if we radically reversed this planetary sprawl? What if we reached a global consensus to retreat from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of the earth?