The event Film screen­ing: Post-Social­ist Kin­ship across Space and Time offers anoth­er oppor­tu­ni­ty to see Anan­di­ta Bajpai’s film “The Sound of Friend­ship: Warm Wave­lengths in a Cold, Cold War” in Berlin.

Place: nGbK am Alex, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 11/13, 10178 Berlin

Date: Sat­ur­day, 14 Octo­ber 2023

Time: 16:00 – 18:00

Orga­nized by: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst

Film screen­ings, con­ver­sa­tions and food shar­ing
with Anan­di­ta Baj­pai, Sarnt Uta­ma­chote and the co-mak­ers of the House of Kal

➔ Son­ic Reverbs (Sarnt Uta­ma­chote, 2021, 22 mins)
➔ The Sound of Friend­ship (Anan­di­ta Baj­pai 2020, 65 mins)

After the screen­ings, the nGbK work group House of Kal invites to con­ver­sa­tions and shar­ing. An East Ger­man-East Ben­gali fusion dish will be served for din­ner (from 17:30) on a dona­tion basis.

Invok­ing the ubiq­ui­tous rad­i­cal film clubs of mul­ti­ple pro­gres­sive film move­ments across coun­tries of the glob­al south, House of Kal show­cas­es two films about rad­i­cal polit­i­cal inti­ma­cies across time, car­ried through son­ic waves of radio and music. 

House of Kal opens their doors to friends, fam­i­lies and sto­ries of com­rade­ships and imper­fect sol­i­dar­i­ties, between his­tor­i­cal and con­tem­po­rary Ger­many and the Glob­al South. The Sound of Friend­ship: Warm Wave­lengths in a Cold, Cold War (2020, Dir: Anan­di­ta Baj­pai) and Son­ic Reverbs (2021, Dir: Sarnt Uta­ma­chote), tell sto­ries of left inter­na­tion­al­ism, post­so­cial­ism and friend­ship in con­tem­po­rary queer migrant perspectives.

The film evening is accom­pa­nied by a fusion meal of East Ger­man and East Ben­gali food, cooked by two car­ers of House of Kal who grew up under com­mu­nist rule in two very dif­fer­ent homes, and found inti­ma­cy, love and plea­sure in recre­at­ing the cuisines of their child­hood togeth­er as friends. Dur­ing this evening, Suza and Pro cook their way out of the aus­ter­i­ty impuls­es of their polit­i­cal and cul­tur­al back­grounds (and the cur­rent moment) – the GDR and post-Par­ti­tion East Ben­gali house­holds car­ry­ing mem­o­ries of famines – to the stun­ning audio­vi­su­als of post­so­cial­ist and post­mi­grant sto­ries of comradeship. 

4 — 5.30 PM: Joint screen­ings of The Sound of Friend­ship: Warm Wave­lengths in a Cold, Cold War (2020, Dir: Anan­di­ta Baj­pai) and Son­ic Reverbs (2021, Dir: Sarnt Utamachote) 

5.30 PM: Con­ver­sa­tion and shar­ing dur­ing dinner

*An East German/East Ben­gal din­ner will be served (a sug­gest­ed spende/donation from 5–15 euros, depend­ing on capac­i­ty is recommended)