(DIGITAL) VIDEO NIGHTS IN BONN'S AND COLOGNE'S LIVING ROOMS

Hosts: Hanna Lena Hohmann and Imke Nagel

In cooperation with the Fachverband Kunst- und Kulturgeragogik (Association for Art and Cultural Geragogy)

Still Lifes by Erik Levine
Aging embodies, represents and concretizes the course of life in all its variations. Postures and gestures, physical features, movements, and traits of older people in turn embody aging. Still Lifes deals with people living in retirement homes and assisted living facilities, merging different narratives and realities.

Language of the video: mainly sound
Language of the event: German

Registration is required by 11/24/2021 at videoabende@videonale.org.
Link to Zoom follows upon registration.

Hosts: Barbara Kagonand Jil Richte

In cooperation with the Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators.

**The artist and one of the protagonists of the video will be present.

In Flow of Words by Eliane Esther Bots
*In Flow of Words follows the stories of three interpreters of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They interpreted shocking testimonies of witnesses, victims and perpetrators without ever allowing their own emotions, feelings and personal stories.

Language of the video: English
Language of the event: English

Registration is required by 11/28/2021 at videoabende@videonale.org.

Link to Zoom follows upon registration.

Host: Sabine Klement

Birds of My Weakness by Úna Quigley.
Birds of my weakness is the story of a woman's emancipation process in a male-dominated society. She achieves this by developing psychic powers that allow her to change gender and directly experience what is on the other side. The work is inspired by Guillaume Apollinaire's Les Mamelles de Tiresias (The Breasts of Tiresias), a surrealist drama with feminist and pacifist elements, written in 1903 and premiered in 1917.

Language of the video: English (with a translation into German)
Language of event: German

Address follows upon registration

Admission is half an hour before the start of each performance. Admission is free, space is limited - registration is required by Dec. 1, 2021 at videoabende@videonale.org. The rule 2G+ (vaccinated or recovered AND tested negative) applies for participation in this video night. The test must be taken on the day of the event and by a professional testing center).

Hosts: Ulrike Staudenmayer and Chris Steuper.

60 elephants. Episodes of a Theory by Michael Klein and Sasha Pirker.
The architect Yona Friedman became known in the 1950s with his utopian designs of a spatial city built above the existing city. Reduced to utility functions, the megastructure was intended to incorporate flexible housing units individually designed by residents*. 60 Elephants. Episodes of a Theory is a sensitive cinematic homage to Friedman's circumspect, unagitated and always topical thinking about the future of the city, which manifests itself not least in his statements on the situation of refugees.

Language of the video: English (with a translation into German)
Language of the event: German

Zoom-Link follows upon registration

Registration is required by 12/3/2021 at videoabende@videonale.org.

Hosts: Martina Höfflin and Tilmann Reiff, brauchbarkeit.

In My Language by Mel Baggs
Mel Baggs was an American autistic and non-binary blogger who became known in the early stages of the autism rights movement. Published on YouTube, the cinematic essay In My Language gained increased media attention in 2007 and can be understood as a manifesto exposing and protesting the assumptions attached to people with autism.

Language of video: English with English subtitles
Language of the event: German

Link to follow upon registration - registration is required by Dec 7, 2021 at videoabende@videonale.org.

Please note: Due to the pandemic situation, this date is postponed to 2022
Hosts: Beatrice Pattas and Axel Schmidt

Iris [A Fragment] by Imogen Stidworthy.
Iris [A Fragment] is about Swedish therapist and writer Iris Johansson. Johansson was nonverbal until she learned to speak at age 12, but as she says, "I will always be autistic" and part of her will always be nonverbal.The film is the result of Imogen Stidworthy's many years of research on speaking "at the boundaries of language" and how relationships and meaning-making are affected, perhaps even changed, by it.

Language of video: English (with a translation into German)
Language of event: German

Address follows upon registration

Admission is half an hour before the start of each event. Admission is free, space is limited - registration is required by Dec. 9, 2021 at videoabende@videonale.org. The rule 2G+ (vaccinated or recovered AND tested negative) applies for participation in this video night. The test must be taken on the day of the event and by a professional testing center).