<nettime> Film Screenings: We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher Berlin November 29 6:30 pm+8.00/Nova '78 November 26 8pm/Slovenian Punk Double Feature Novemver 28 6:30pm+8:15pm

[Nat Gravenor via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Three film programs of the 10th anniversary of Soundwatch Music Film
Festival

Venue for all events:

Lichtblick-Kino, Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin
tickets at www.lichtblick-kino.org

1.
November 26, 8pm

Berlin Premiere:
Nova ’78 (English OV)
Online Q&A with co-director Rodrigo Areias

GB/PT/USA 2025, 78 min, directors: Aaron Brookner, Rodrigo Areias,
featuring: William S. Burroughs, John Giorno, Patti Smith, Frank Zappa,
Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Laurie Anderson

The year is 1978, and New York’s autumn is drawing to a close. The East
Village is buzzing with anticipation for the Nova Convention, an ambitious,
multimedia tribute honoring “the great gray eminence”, William S.
Burroughs, captured on film by director Howard Brookner and his crew.
Created by Rodrigo Areias and Brookner’s nephew, Aaron Brookner, NOVA ’78
is an archive-based documentary assembled from footage of this three-day
event long believed lost. Featuring performances from a cohort of artists
and writers, including Patti Smith, Frank Zappa, Allen Ginsberg and Laurie
Anderson, the film adopts a formally sober approach to the source material,
allowing the thrilling momentum of the late ’70s avantgarde to speak for
itself, with all its imperfections and naïveté. The optimistic faith in the
possibility of a future comes off as more distant and off-putting to the
present-day viewer than the unavoidable nostalgia the images carry. Equally
distant is Burroughs himself, despite his position as the film’s ostensible
center. On stage, among the crowds, or alone on his strolls, he looks
pensive, already miles away and light years ahead, as if he already knew
that the idea of progress is nothing but a fallacy.
(Öykü Sofuoğlu, Viennale Catalogue)


2.

November 28, 6:30pm and 8:15pm

Slovenian Punk Double Feature (part of festival focus 50 years of Punk -
Eastern European Perspectives)

6:30 pm
Outsider (Slovenian OV with English subtitles)

SI 1997, 105 min, director: Andrej Košak

Ljubljana 1979. Teenager Sead Mulahasanović moves to the Slovenian capital
when his Bosnian father, a sergeant in the Yugoslav People's Army, is
transferred there. Sead attends the local high school and soon is
befriended by punks. They form a band. Because punk culture was disdained
by Yugoslavian authorities, and the entire country was on edge because
supreme leader Marshall Tito had fallen ill, the group falls afoul of the
police. Sead’s private life is also in turmoil: His father pressures him to
enter the military academy and adhere more strictly to “socialist ideals”
and Sead falls in love with his classmate Metka, whose family disapproves
of him. When Sead’s bandmate Borut is arrested and beaten by the police,
Metka reveals she’s pregnant and Tito’s health rapidly declines, things
come to a head…

“Outsider” was the highest grossing Slovenian film to date and that
country’s Academy Awards entry.
- - -

8:15 pm
Punk Under Communist Regime (Slovenian OV with English subtitles)
Online talk with director Andrej Košak and producer Zoran Dževerdanovi

SI/RS/BG 2025, 105 min, director: Andrej Košak

A documentary about the Slovenian punk scene between 1977 and 1985. The
bands were all made up of high school students who, despite their youth,
quickly began to perform and triggered a wave of repression by the
communist party. While Marshall Tito was dying in Ljubljana, an outburst of
incredible creativity from young people took place in Slovenia, who no
longer agreed to the party’s narrow-mindedness. This was the first serious
countercultural blow in the former Yugoslavia followed by a “Nazi punk
affair” that put the three protagonists of the punk scene in custody. While
English punks gathered in pubs, Slovenian punks gathered in the city center
on Johnny Rotten Square. They were living in dangerous times.

3.

November 29 6:30 pm + 8:00 pm
We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher (English OV with German subtitles)
GB 2026, 65 min, directors: Sophie Mellor, Simon Poulter

Despite his far-too-early death in 2017, (pop) theorist and cultural
scholar Mark Fisher remains one of the most influential thinkers in the
field of culture in the age of late capitalism. The film by Sophie Mellor
and Simon Poulter—produced without any funding and partly through
crowdsourcing—explores Fisher’s ideas across nine chapters and demonstrates
that another world is still possible.

Free entry (supported by Netzwerk Selbsthilfe). Please reserve a
free ticket here

6:30pm: https://t1p.de/markfisher630pm
8:00pm: https://t1p.de/markfisher8pm
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