Screening

ONLINE STREAM:
Laura Horelli
Newstime

Dates

14.04.–31.05.20

Due to circumstances revolving around the COVID-19 virus, the film screening had to be canceled. Instead, we will show Laura Horelli’s Newstime (2019) online.

Film in various languages with English subtitles: 39:10 minutes

Laura Horelli’s (*1976, FI) film trilogy A Letter to Mother (2013), The Terrace (2011), and Haukka-Pala (2009) explores the boundaries of autobiography and memory—as unanswered questions to the deceased mother, as speculation about different routes a biography could have taken, or as comment on a historical coincidence that remained unregistered at the time. In 2017, Horelli’s billboard collages, Namibia Today, posted at Schillingstraße subway station in Berlin, addressed the legacy of socialist solidarity: The collaged reprints from Namibia Today—the GDR-funded and -printed English magazine of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO—read as comments on a climate of increasing economic distress and xenophobia. Horelli’s latest film Newstime (2019) explores the Finnish-Namibian relations, being foreign, cultural differences, as well as Finland’s longstanding support of the Namibian liberation movement.

Part of project: The Berlin Sessions

Since February 2017, KW Institute for Contemporary Art organized a series of monthly public talks in collaboration with various institutions and organizations located in Berlin. The series entitled The Berlin Sessions explored the fabric of cultural producers in the city by inviting one Berlin-based speaker to give a presentation on another cultural producer that he/she/they find inspiring. The goal of the lecture series was to highlight the work of Berlin-based creatives from the perspective of their peers; to map connections between the various producers and fields and to strengthen the existing networks between locally based artists, authors, musicians, performers, researchers and other creative producers.