The gold fell from very high in the sky, and so when it hit the earth, it went down very very deep

04.09.2021 - 02.10.2021

curated by_vienna 2021, COMEDY, Wien / Österreich
Felix Gaudlitz, Wien / Österreich

How to tell a structure? How to narrate this thing that is both pervasive and invisible, both determined and determining, both repressive and enabling? With Sohrab Shahid-Saless’ film In der Fremde, the structure has clear contours: It designates the way in which exploitation, inequality and dehumanization is being maintained on an everyday basis. As much as a structure cannot be shown directly, it can be rendered visible through a series of detours: No plot but environments, no psychology but frames, no catharsis but mechanical repetition....




Concurrently the film In der Fremde (Far From Home) by Sohrab Shahid-Saless will be screened:

Sohrab Shahid-Saless
In der Fremde

Iran / West-Germany, 1975
OV (German / Turkish) with English subtitles

Stadtkino im Ku¨nstlerhaus
Akademiestraße 13, 1010 Vienna
4. 9. 2021, 16:00
2. 10. 2021, 16:00

Blickle Kino
Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Vienna
5. 9. 2021, 16:00
26. 9. 2021, 16:00

Sohrab Shahid-Saless’ first film after emigrating from Iran to Germany revolves around the everyday life of Husseyin, a Turkish worker in West Berlin in the 1970s. Shot in just 13 days with amateur actors from Kreuzberg, one of the most important representatives of the Iranian New Wave tells the story of a social existence struggling with the pressure of uniformity. Here, the factory and the home become the pillars of a structure whose contours cut right into the zones of intimacy.

With introductions by Esra Akcan, Alice Creischer, Pujan Karambeigi, Michelle Langford, Simon Lässig, Ghislaine Leung, Richard Maxwell, Samaneh Moafi, Romy Ru¨egger, and Alfred Schefczyk


[Quelle: Einladung]