The Algerian-French filmmaker Gatlif travels from India, via Egypt, Turkey and Eastern Europe to Spain to document the local Roma culture.
Just as fascinating as the differences are the similarities he finds on the various continents. Music and dance are central to this almost dialogue-free documentary that emphatically wants to show the lively and colorful Roma existence, although the difficult position of the Roma people in the past and present is also present. For the film Gatlif received the Un Certain Regard Award in Cannes.
Accompanying the film, we organize a conversation between artists Wu Tsang and Sophia Al-Maria. You can buy a combi-ticket to visit both the film and the talk.
Tickets
17.30 / Film screening: Latcho Drom
20.00 / Talk: Excavating Carmen, with Wu Tsang and Sophia Al-Maria
Carmen and Carmen
From 20 December to 12 January, award-winning filmmaker and multimedia artist Wu Tsang presents Carmen and Carmen: a film installation, along with a program of films, talks and performances, that together explore the myth of Carmen in conversation with her collaborators.
In converation with Wu Tsang and artist and writer Sophie Al-Maria who together worked on the innovative Carmen opera that was presented by the Holland Festival last year. For her opera version of Carmen Wu Tsang cooperated with writer and artist Sophia Al-Maria. Together they worked on a hybrid opera-theatre piece that digs through the
La gran mentira de la muerte (The big lie of death) is a multichannel sound and film installation that explores poetic themes of the famous opera Carmen through the performative fields of flamenco and bullfighting. The film explores how these forms – like the opera itself – evoke the spectacle of death, and implicate the