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1. Night Session
   Screening
   Block 17/I
   YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS ?! 4/4 (revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova
   17 March 2017
   posted by: Pierre Rubio
   a.pass
   20 March 2017
   

    

    

   
   Screening starts at 16h00

   Entrance free

   Map

    

    

   Extended, closing program for Monday 20/03/17

    

    

   Hyperstition
   2016/ 100'
   Christopher Roth with Armen Avanessian
   
   "Hyper-what?"
   Features Georg Diez, Anke Hennig, Tom Lamberty, Nick Land, Quentin Meillassoux, Reza Negarestani, Björn Quiring, Patricia Reed, Tom Streidl, James Trafford, Jeanne Tremsal, Alex Williams, and Slavoj Žižek.
   
   
   Kempinski
   2007/France/14'
   Neil Beloufa
   
   Shot in Mali, Neil Beloufa’s Kempinski (2007) is a science fiction documentary featuring interviews with local inhabitants as they imagine their visions of the future.
   

    

   
   
   +++ BREAK/ Starts again at 19h30 +++
   

    

    

   
   Kin-dza-dza!
   1986 / USSR/ 135'
   Georgiy Daneliya
   
   Kin-dza-dza! is one of the strangest artefacts in all of Soviet cinema. It’s a science fiction satire in which Vladmir and Gedevan, a gruff Russian construction worker and a Georgian student, find themselves accidentally transported to Pluke, a barren desert-world with a barbaric, bureaucratic society. Gradually realising that they are not in a ‘capitalist country’, the two men begin a long and farcical voyage home that more closely resembles the theatre of the absurd than it does any preconceived notion of cinematic science fiction. The men befriend two locals, Bi and Wef, and are soon busking their way across Pluke and becoming ensnared in various misadventures that stem from the planet’s bizarre and unbendable social rules, and its two-tier social structure of ruling Chatlanians and subservient Patsaks.
   
   
   Heart of a Dog 
   1988 / USSR / 113'
   Vladimir Bortko
   
   An adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s dystopian and comic sci-fi novel Sobache Serdtse about a Soviet experiment of turning a dog into a human, set in Moscow in 1925, not long after the Revolution of 1917.
   Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. Couple of weeks later the dog named Sharik became a slovenly and narcissistic incarnation of the New Soviet Man.
2. Night Session
   Screening
   Block 17/I
   YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?! 3/4 (Revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova
   03 March 2017
   posted by: Pierre Rubio
   06 March 2017
   

    

    

   Program for Monday 06/03

   Screening starts at 19h30

    

    

    

    

   Testament

   John Akomfrah

   1988 / Ghana / 88 min

    

   Preceeding the visit of Dr. Edward George, member of Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), we present Testament, the first narrative feature film of the collective. Link to the event / on Facebook

    

   In Testament, the condition of the postcolony is embodied in the figure of activist turned television reporter Abena who returns to contemporary Ghana, for the first time since the 1966 coup that ended President Kwame Nkrumah’s experiment in African socialism. Adrift in a ‘war zone of memories’ in the words of the film’s subtitle, Abena is caught in the tension between public history and private memory Testament is characterised by a depopulated frame and the deliberately cold look that evoke an emotional landscape of postcolonial trauma.

    

    

    

   The Unity of All Things

   Alexander Craver & Daniel Schmidt

   2013 / USA, Switzerland, China/ 97 min

    

   The Unity of All Things is a work of experimental science fiction about the construction of a particle accelerator beneath the U.S./Mexico border. It is grappling with questions of self and other by employing particle physics as a metaphor for the morphing nature of human identity. The film engages the utopian impulses of the genre, not through the imagining of another world, but through the rendering of this world as Other. All subjects are treated as alien, or as radical others, who search for, or advance different ideological, psychological, or sexual ideals of belonging. Subjects oscillate between the contemplation of past societal traumas and idealizations of futurity that refuse to synthesize or resolve, but instead reveal a troubling satire of the present.

    

    

    

    

    

   Program for Monday 06/03

   Screening starts at 19h30

   Entrance free

   location a.pass 4th floor

   https://www.google.be/maps/place/Rue+Delaunoy+60,+1080+Molenbeek-Saint-Jean/@50.8530792,4.3300367,17z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47c3c3f46c54e4c7:0x4e61e376c2f6b53a

    
3. Night Session
   Screening
   Block 17/I
   YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?! 2/4 (Revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova
   10 February 2017
   posted by: Pierre Rubio
   a.pass
   16 February 2017
   

    

    

   Program for Thursday 16/02, 19h30
   

    

   
   The stuff of stars has come alive
   

    

   A Visit To The Underground Cities Of Mars

   UNARIUS

   1977/ USA/ 58"
   
   

   We'll go visit the underground cities of Mars, as imaginated and documented by an actual psychic experience. It shows for a more embodied approach to the SF imagination and reconsiders the trope of the guest, the visitor, the witness as experience. We will be guided by Uriel and her students of the UNARIUS academy of science, an UFO-religion still active today. 
   
   
   

   The Co-Star Tapes

   Compiled by Miranda July

   1998-2002/ USA/ Var.

    

   Then we head to scroll through The Co-Star Tapes, a series of videos compiled and distributed by Miranda July in the 90s. Let's look at the co-stars of the sky. It's a feminist, queer sky; a betaville for the future.

   
   The selection includes:
   
   How The Miracle of Masturbation Saved Me From Becoming a Teenage Space Alien - Dulcie Clarkson
   A coming-of-age story you've never seen before.
   
   The Amateurist - Miranda July 
   A “professional” woman monitors an “amateur” woman (both played by July) via video surveillance, as she has for the last four and a half years. She has never had direct contact with the amateur, but creates a sense of communion through numbers, knobs and careful language.
   
   Transeltown - Myra Paci 
   Dante transported to Times Square.
   
   

   
   
   
   

   NOTE: The event is open for limited public. Feel free to invite some friends. 

   Before the screening at 7.30pm, around 6pm we will cook some vegetarian pasta and eat together. 
   

    

   WELCOME!

    

    

    
4. Night Session
   Screening
   Block 17/I
   YOU CALL THIS PROGRESS?! 1/4 (Revisiting SF Cinema) curated by Dehens & Kaplunova
   29 January 2017
   posted by: Pierre Rubio
   a.pass
   30 January 2017
   

    

    

   Program for Monday 30/01/17:

    

   Screening begins at 20:00

    

   Crimes of the future

   David Cronenberg

   1970 / USA / 70 min

    

   Crimes of the Future details the wanderings of Tripod, sometime director of a dermatological clinic called the House of Skin, who is searching for his mentor, the mad dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has disappeared following a catastrophic plague resulting from cosmetic products, which has killed the entire population of sexually mature women. A bio-political Science Fiction informed by the anti-psychiatry movement mixed with a bit of Ballard and Burroughs and a lot of early Cronenberg imagination. It is curious in many ways - one of which being the fact that no sound was taken on location and the experimental use of foley that resulted from this.

    

   Per Aspera Ad Astra (Through The Thorns To The Stars)

   1st part

   Richard Viktorov

   1981 / USSR / 75 min

    

   Neeya is a striking-looking anthropoid found barely alive in an abandoned space craft... Brought to earth by the Russian space crew, she is nursed back to health and memory of her planet Dessa and its ecological collapse. When Neeya's benefactor Sergey joins the crew of an environmental rescue mission, she sneaks on board and convinces Sergey to change course. Once they have landed on the planet of Dessa, they begin improving the atmosphere and water while simultaneously struggling against the supporters of an evil dwarf Turan and a creepy biomass that has escaped the laboratory…

    

    

    
5. conference
   Event
   Lecture
   Recent Past
   Block 17/I
   LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY screening and presentation by Dr EDWARD GEORGE
   23 February 2017
   posted by: Pierre Rubio
   a.pass
   08 March 2017
   

    

    

   “LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY”

    

   a screening and presentation by Dr EDWARD GEORGE

   (Black Audio Film Collective, London)

    

   The Last Angel of History is one of the most influential video-essays of the 1990s influencing filmmakers and inspiring conferences, novels and exhibitions. Black Audio Film Collective's exploration of the chromatic possibilities of digital video is embedded within a mythology of the future that creates connections between black unpopular culture, outer space and the limits of the human condition. The influential Black Audio Film Collective crafted this experimental blend of sci-fi parable and essay film, which also serves as an essential primer on the aesthetics and dynamics of contemporary Afrofuturism. Interviews with esteemed musicians, writers, and cultural critics are interwoven with the fictional story of the “data thief,” who must travel through time and space in search of the code that holds the key to his future.

   Edward George, the writer, researcher, presenter of this ground breaking science fiction documentary, will present and discuss the film and its themes of music, Diaspora, science fiction, and its engagement with Afro futurism.

    

   Dr. Edward George is a founder of Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), the multimedia duo Flow Motion (1996-present), and the electronic music group Hallucinator (1998-present).

    

    

   March 8th, 2017 _ 7pm-10pm

    

   @ a.pass

   Delaunoystraat 58

   1080 Brussels

    

   ​entrance free​!

    

   Screening at 7pm

   Presentation at 8pm

   Discussion at 9pm

    

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYe_nj7xfQM

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Angel_of_History