Geist Kollektiv Berlin - Making Of Ghost Cinema > Live Cinema Ghost Cinema > Live Cinema Video Intervention by Geist Kollektiv Berlin former silent film theater Delphi Berlin Weißensee 01/18/2015 Music taken from Zuhause im Weltall by bohemian drips (video edit) Clock Yangé - Tie-Dye Materials Sabotage Soundtrack - Ghost 22 Matti - Zwischenhall Ghost Cinema is a series of site specific AV interventions that take place in urban spaces menaced by capitalistic speculation and gentrification processes. It is conceived as an assemblage of audiovisual materials such as video footage, photographs, newspaper articles, testimonials, drawings and other archives, in order to create a remix that awakens the spirit of the place where the performance happens. In this way it can be understood as a collaborative media ritual, in which the force of shared memories has vital effects. The silent movie theater Delphi opened in 1929 with 980 seats, hosting film events until it was forced to close in 1959. Now it rests like a hidden jewel, one of the best preserved relics of this important cultural era: the heyday of German film. Per Aspera Productions reopened the theater to the public in 2012, and since then, this artistic and production team have been fighting not only to save the theater from demolition, but to establish it as a new institution in Berlin. This is the privileged spot that is going to host a very special Ghost Ride, mixing psychogeography and technoxamanism. Live-Music Performance : Kolophonium ift.tt/1CoZgsb ift.tt/1EyZBHV Selected Vinyls by lislbar & wermuth ift.tt/1CoZgIt ift.tt/1EyZE6A ift.tt/1CoZiAf The extinction of movie theatres is a global phenomenon that has been observed in the past 30 years across many countries. This can be related to the culture of fear, that has been redefining urban spaces and pushed cinemas into shopping centres, but also to new ways of film distribution – television, home video, internet – in which cinemas are no longer a privileged space. If one can say that cinema has always been a ghost – a spectre in a way – what could the ending of old movie palaces teach us about the nature of cinema? To use the portmanteau coined by Gregory Ulmer, what is the mystory in the decadence of these buildings? Ghost Cinema addresses to these questions through a series of video interventions, which occupy deactivated movie theatres. Starting from an affective cartography of buildings abandoned, demolished or simply transformed into another activity, the project counts on the spontaneous collaboration of cinema spectators and has been presented in different cities. The memories shared in a collaborative network are indexed in a database, and the data is combined and projected over the buildings in a Live Cinema session, mixing materiality, mediality and temporality. As Jacques Derrida affirms, archives are not dealing with the past, but with the future. Ghost Cinema pays a tribute to dead cinemas, bringing them back to life in a mediumistic session, but more than that, it wants do discuss possible futures for the buildings and its surroundings, and new architectures for image sharing. _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Country Radio _______ FB: r-js/1x2Z0Lv / TW: r-js/XvfXBw / Listen Live r-js/1dOIQ18 #countrymusic #taylorswift #blakeshelton #carrieunderwood #ladyantebellum #jasonaldean #mirandalambert
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