program
Johannes Paetzold et al.
playing
Johannes Paetzold et al.
Wednesday 11.09 20:00
Ø (Mika Vainio): Oleva (Sahko, 2008, 62 minutes)
listening session
Ø (Mika Vainio): Oleva (Sahko, 2008, 62 minutes)
Thursday 12.09 20:00
We share the album together in silence.
The session begins on time.
Arriving a bit late? No worries, just come in quietly to preserve the listening atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you!
Please note: we do not take reservations.
puzzle 00 with tobha and friends
community
puzzle 00 with tobha and friends
Friday 13.09 20:00
What do DJ-sets and puzzles have in common? They’re connecting pieces together to create something bigger.
For their first instalment of puzzle, tobha has invited some friends to join them behind the decks. Pass by migas on September 13 to put the pieces together with us.
Playing this night in alphabetical order: Abibi, Arnav, Blume, Buoy, Disco Samir, Impérieux, jan k, klu, Marylou, Max Held, Nono Gigsta, ophélie, and Sarj.
The Delphi Table, 1971–1989 (2024)
archival assembly #3
The Delphi Table, 1971–1989 (2024)
Tuesday 17.09 15:00
Since 1971, Arsenal has organized the Forum section of the Berlinale. For decades, the discussions in Delphi Cinema were legendary: When a film ended, a table was carried onto the stage and a moderator, in most cases a translator, and of course the filmmaker would sit down to take audience questions, with sometimes very heated discussions ensuing. Occasionally, there were group discussions, about experimental film or in connection with a country’s political crisis. Almost all the discussions were recorded, at first on reel-to-reel tape and later on cassette. In the 1990s, discussions at Arsenal Cinema outside of the Berlinale began to be recorded, a practice that continues to this day. During the lockdown, Arsenal projectionists digitized these recordings. The result is an archive that not only says something about the reception history of hundreds of films, but above all about cinema as a social space, a space for discourse, and about film talks as a cultural technique that has drastically changed over the decades. At migas, a two-hour audio montage will be played, giving an impression of debate culture in the 1970s and 1980s.
Archival Assembly #3: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image
The third edition of the biennial festival turns its focus to the importance of sound and language within the archival practices of international film history, organized by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst. The festival venues this year are silent green, Kino Arsenal, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA and migas where a sonic daytime program is presented every day between 12:00 and 18:00. Come any time to enter the two-hour loops.
Didi Cheeka, Vinzenz Hediger: Sound Without Vision – A Third Cinema Sonic Imaginary of Neo-Colonialism (2024)
archival assembly #3
Didi Cheeka, Vinzenz Hediger: Sound Without Vision – A Third Cinema Sonic Imaginary of Neo-Colonialism (2024)
Wednesday 18.09 12:00
In the spirit of Third Cinema, this is a non-visual exploration of the fundamental contradictions in attempts to construct a new nation in the image of the former colonizer: neo-colonialism. It begins with the extraction of raw materials – coal – and tangentially touches on what is usually missing from global film studies: How cinema is entwined with colonialism. The main thrust of this journey into the sonic past is how archival practices might unlock the political imaginary of an ex-colony. Using sounds (and text) from Nigeria’s National Film, Video and Sound Archive, this sonic installation seeks to chronicle sound recordings as a record of what might be called the sonic imaginary of the “post-colonial” nation state: As both a record of state protocols and rituals as well as an archive of possibilities for imagining different pasts and futures of this nation state. Given that Third Cinema arose in the 1960s and 1970s as a clash between Third World filmmakers and the social forms hostile to them – colonialism and neo-colonialism – what line of continuity could be drawn between contemporary Third World (sound) archival practices and the Third Cinema that derived from the anti-colonial struggle for national liberation? What does it mean to think of Third Cinema in relation to the sound archive?
Archival Assembly #3: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image
The third edition of the biennial festival turns its focus to the importance of sound and language within the archival practices of international film history, organized by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst. The festival venues this year are silent green, Kino Arsenal, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA and migas where a sonic daytime program is presented every day between 12:00 and 18:00. Come any time to enter the two-hour loops.
Savanna Morgan: The Poetics of Sweetwater
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Savanna Morgan: The Poetics of Sweetwater
Wednesday 18.09 20:00
We invite you to investigate crucial connections between the musical practice of Savanna Morgan in her debut EP Sweetwater and the trans-Atlantic and cosmopolitan songs of Bessie Smith. Morgan invokes the blues, a centuries-old African-American form of poetic storytelling, as a carrier of joys, sorrows, and knowledge – with the understanding that music and rhythm are the only containers big enough to hold the vast complexity of black histories. In the session, the audience will also be invited to join in on conversations between minds and bodies.
This is the second session of a monthly series on poetry and sound curated by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein.
Sara Pinheiro: Acousmatic Echoes of Ruchový archiv, 1968–1989 (2024)
archival assembly #3
Sara Pinheiro: Acousmatic Echoes of Ruchový archiv, 1968–1989 (2024)
Thursday 19.09 12:00
Sara Pinheiro’s composition, curated by Jonáš Kucharský of Prague’s Národní filmový archive, explores Barrandov Studios’ long considered lost Foley archive. Established in the late 1950s, the archive had a major influence on the sonic landscape of Czech cinema into the 1990s. Pinheiro’s piece presents digitized sounds from tapes recently found in the archive, offering a glimpse into this vast sonic treasure. Using the sounds acousmatically, Pinheiro investigates how we perceive mediated sounds when taken out of their original context and explores sound’s translation between cultures. The work raises questions about the boundaries between sound and music, particularly in the realm of Foley and sound effects. It is also a contribution to debates around the preservation of transient actions and reflects on the epistemology of sound in the age of recorded media. By presenting the heterogeneous contents of the Foley archive, the composition attempts to answer the question: What does Czech cinema sound like? This work-in-progress offers a unique perspective on Czech film history, sound preservation, and the nature of mediated sound in audiovisual art.
Archival Assembly #3: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image
The third edition of the biennial festival turns its focus to the importance of sound and language within the archival practices of international film history, organized by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst. The festival venues this year are silent green, Kino Arsenal, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA and migas where a sonic daytime program is presented every day between 12:00 and 18:00. Come any time to enter the two-hour loops.
Kae Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos (Fiction/Lex, 2016, 48 minutes)
listening session
Kae Tempest: Let Them Eat Chaos (Fiction/Lex, 2016, 48 minutes)
Thursday 19.09 20:00
We share the album together in silence.
The session begins on time.
Arriving a bit late? No worries, just come in quietly to preserve the listening atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you!
Please note: we do not take reservations.
Filipa César, Marinho de Pina, community of Malafo, and sounds from the sonoteca: Matriarchs From Malafo (2024)
archival assembly #3
Filipa César, Marinho de Pina, community of Malafo, and sounds from the sonoteca: Matriarchs From Malafo (2024)
Friday 20.09 12:00
In the rainy season, when rice sprouts still find their way to flooded rice fields, a sonic experiment collapses voices and sounds from now and then. Tales from Malafo are also tales of humanity; they recount dreams, desires, longings, and hopes; they are about people who fight together to heal the wounds circumstances have opened up. Inherited wounds for which one must still take responsibility, in search of a balance where love thrives in the community and land. The vocal testimonies of matriarchs, the songs and tales of children and their children, adult and elderly men, the speech of rivers and boulders, the stories told by birds and the wind. Living and non-living, material and immaterial beings are summoned to bend time in the sonoteca – ringing land, seeding sounds, sonoteca – a space recently built with the Malafo community as part of the Mediateca Onshore to store sounds that have passed through and are still to come. MATRIARCHS OF MALAFO is a sound installation dealing with synesthesia to send messages about the reconstruction of entanglements.
Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Jonas Schöneberg: The Sound of Postwar Cinema: Listening with Hanswolfgang Bergs (2024)
archival assembly #3
Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Jonas Schöneberg: The Sound of Postwar Cinema: Listening with Hanswolfgang Bergs (2024)
Saturday 21.09 12:00
Meters and meters of film sound, radio chatter about stars, movies, and film shoots, a passion for Schlager from German films, outtakes and unused footage, and fragmented interviews with famous and lesser known names of film history: This is what we hear on the hundreds of tapes recorded and collected by Hanswolfgang Bergs now stored at the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Bergs understood the sound film not only as a visual but primarily as an acoustic medium. From 1946 to 1969, he produced countless radio programs for German public broadcaster Südwestfunk about films and filmmakers, making radio a now nearly forgotten site of popular film culture in West Germany. To do so, Bergs and his colleagues traveled with tape recorders to festivals, premieres, and film sets. The focus of Bergs’ work gradually became a collection of re-recorded film soundtracks, which he systematically organized into a film sound archive. The question today is: What can we do with this archive?
Archival Assembly #3: The Politics of Listening to the Moving Image
The third edition of the biennial festival turns its focus to the importance of sound and language within the archival practices of international film history, organized by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst. The festival venues this year are silent green, Kino Arsenal, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA and migas where a sonic daytime program is presented every day between 12:00 and 18:00. Come any time to enter the two-hour loops.
Akïi & Alberto Boni
playing
Akïi & Alberto Boni
Saturday 07.09 20:00
Akïi and Alberto Boni will present an evening rooted in experimental, ambient, rap, deconstructed, romantic and emo.
Photo: Kattako
Mat Fink
playing
Nour Sokhon
listening session
Nour Sokhon
Thursday 05.09 20:00
Nour Sokhon invites us to a listening session of contrasts, from experimental and enchanting to nostalgic and traditional.
We share the music together in silence.
The session begins on time.
Arriving a bit late? No worries, just come in quietly to preserve the listening atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you!
Please note: we do not take reservations.
Hermanos Gutierrez
sold out
Hermanos Gutierrez
Tuesday 03.09 22:00
Unfortunately the event is already sold out.
22:00: Doors Open
23:00: Hermanos Gutiérrez
Until End: Jimbo
Johannes Ehmann
playing
Johannes Ehmann
Saturday 31.08 20:00
Join us for another evening of off beat jazz, soul & electronics with Johannes Ehmann.
Stella Chiweshe: Ambuya! (Remastered) (Piranha Records, 2021, 55 minutes)
listening session
Stella Chiweshe: Ambuya! (Remastered) (Piranha Records, 2021, 55 minutes)
Thursday 29.08 20:00
Presented by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein.
We share the album together in silence.
The session begins on time.
Arriving a bit late? No worries, just come in quietly to preserve the listening atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you!
Please note: we do not take reservations.
Josephinex
playing
Josephinex
Friday 23.08 20:00
Get ready for a musical evening that the artist Josephinex describes as juxtaposed, congruent, honeymooning, carbon-based, and umami. We can’t wait!
Sophie Hutchings: A World Outside (Mercury KX, 2023, 46 minutes)
listening session
Sophie Hutchings: A World Outside (Mercury KX, 2023, 46 minutes)
Thursday 22.08 20:00
The album will be presented by Terence Goodchild.
We share the album together in silence.
The session begins on time.
Arriving a bit late? No worries, just come in quietly to preserve the listening atmosphere. We can’t wait to see you!
Please note: we do not take reservations.
Gautier
playing
Gautier
Wednesday 21.08 20:00
Gautier will be spinning some deep, modern jazzy grooves for us.
soo:k
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