Globe Art Point (G.A.P) is delighted to welcome Kino Satellite for a series of free screenings featuring international experimental and nonfiction short work, curated by Pamela Cohn.

Originally founded in 2010 in Berlin, Germany, Finland-based curator Pamela Cohn brings her Kino Satellite series to Helsinki, continuing its tradition of intimate screenings for viewing parties, post-screening discussion, and community building through the sharing of innovative and challenging moving image work as part of the lead-up to her curatorial residency at Helsinki International Artist Programme – HIAP, September 2024 – July 2025 on the island of Suomenlinna.

The screenings are set for 27 March, 3 April and 24 April 2024. Doors open at 17.15.

About the film curator Pamela Cohn: www.globeartpoint.fi/gap-artist-info/

STATION TO STATION – SHOW #1
27 March 2024

In this first grouping of films, we’ll explore works that play with ineffable or ghostly presences, featuring films from makers challenging themselves on how to storytell with image and sound about war, grief, and geographical movements from our limited physical plane of existence into imaginary worlds that feature states of interiority, works that grapple with the notions of the realities around us versus the realities we create inside our minds, and how those two realms of existence come to reside side by side in order to find emotional release and stasis.

17.30 – 17.45: Short introduction of program and featured works
17.45 – 19.15: Film program (Total RT: 84 minutes)
19.15 – 19.45: Post screening discussion + Mingle

FEATURED FILMS

Shadows directed by Vahid Goodarzpour, Iran/Finland 2023, 5’

Based on Plato’s allegory of the cave, a human attempts to escape from bondage and attain Truth. The human believes that he has reached the ultimate truth, but what he encounters after liberation from the imaginary is merely a shadow created by an unknown entity. A game of the mind’s eye, moving from one stage of reality to the next.

I Was a Ghost Myself directed by Müge Yildiz, Turkey/Finland 2022, 27’

Following a ghost’s footsteps, psycho-geographically moving through a city where the ancient intertwines with the modern, a haunting takes place as light in moving images. During two years of shooting, the filmmaker visits the town in which she grew up and the city in which she later lived. She then visits her childhood town to see her grandmother’s grave, her old family house and school. Filmed entirely with expired/old stock super 8mm film, handmade camera lenses and scratched film technique, the beams of light, dust and aged texture of the film compose the ghost in its emotional state. The soundscape, in turn, overlaps a collage of both recorded and found sounds with the ghost’s monologue at times observational, at times poetic, decomposing the ghost with geographic motion.

HANDBOOK directed by Pavel Mozhar, Germany/Belarus 2021, 26’

In the days following the presidential election in Belarus in August 2020, numerous protests erupt throughout the country. The special police, OMON, take particularly brutal action against demonstrators, that also spills over onto passers-by in the streets. In total, almost 7000 people are arrested throughout Belarus. Hundreds of victims recount their experiences in interviews. Their reports reveal a system of repression, which is reconstructed in detail in the director’s small flat in Neukölln, Berlin, in the form of a cinematic how-to guide.

Station to Station directed by Jimmy Hou, Taiwan 2023, 26’

“As a kid, time is remembered through moving from place to place; we were always in motion, and therefore it was ambiguous as to where I came from after all.” From living in the An-Kung Community of Taipei to embarking on a journey to China, with conflicting emotions and an engraved identity, the filmmaker is lost among the various meanings of home and hometown. After accumulating and assembling materials for about a decade, a home and self-identity was formed – by moving from image to image, station to station.