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Suspension: Ep. 4 Unlearning and Reimagining
A screening, conversation, and live performance at Niemetzstraße 1.
By Staff
In a moment shaped by prolonged violence, displacement, and image saturation, how do we continue to watch, listen, and take responsibility? What happens when images no longer promise explanation or resolution, and when documentation becomes inseparable from survival? This evening approaches these questions through unlearning and reimagining as critical practices: loosening expectations of narrative progress, evidentiary clarity, and representational fulfilment, and opening space for forms of attention shaped by repetition, mediation, and endurance rather than coherence or closure.
These questions are taken up through a screening of Kings and Extras (Azza El-Hassan, 2004), which reflects on Palestinian histories of representation, exile, and mediated visibility. Moving through over-rehearsed roles, recursive acts of filming, and encounters shaped by displacement, the film presents cinema as a lived condition structured by obligation and survival. By holding time in suspension, Kings and Extras examines what it means to exist within an image world where memory, identity, and death are continuously mediated.
The evening opens with an introduction to awhām magazine by İpek Erdöl and Quang Nguyen, followed by the screening and a conversation with Mudar Al-Kufash, moderated by Şirin Fulya Erensoy. In the second part of the evening, Mbiriko and his trio blend the deep rhythms of Gnawa music with contemporary instruments, hypnotic textures, and cross-cultural influences.
A collaboration with Refuge Worldwide & awhām, Wednesday 4th February, hosted at the Refuge Worldwide space (Niemetzstraße 1, 12055).
18:00 - Door opening
18:30 - awhām Introduction by İpek Erdöl and Quang Nguyen
19:00 - Screening: Kings and Extras by Azza El-Hassan
20:00 - Discussion Moderated by Sirin Fulya Erensoy with Mudar Al-Khufash
20:45 - Live Music Performance by Mbiriko (Gnawa Vibes)
Please note: the screening is limited to 40 seats, available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Photo Credit @m_biriko
