Cinema of Commoning
Symposium, Screenings, Talks
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19.03.2023

Tactics for a Transnational Archive

A weekend of workshops led by invited experts exploring transnational archiving and creative practice.

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22.01.2023

On Diaspora and Informal Archives

Panel discussion with Daniella Shreir, Ivan Velisavljević and Mohanad Yaqubi. Moderation: Tobias Hering.

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29.11.2022

How Should a Cinema Oriented Towards the Commons be Designed?

Panel discussion with Imruh Bakari, Lyse Ishimwe Nsengiyumva and Sarnt Utamachote. Moderation: Can Sungu.
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27.10.2022

Creating Spaces for Film Education

Panel discussion with Yuki Aditya, Luthfan Nur Rochman, Christine Kopf , Malve Lippmann, Sarnt Utamachote. Moderation: Alejandro Bachmann.
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12.10.2022

How do Cinemas Create Political Spheres and Collectivity?

Panel discussion with Thanaphon Accawatanyu, Jowe Harfouche, Alain Kasanda, Mirian Vanda, Fradique. Moderation: Sarnt Utamachote.
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14.09.2022

A City Tour of Cinema(tic) Encounters

A walking tour of alternative film spaces in Berlin, part of the Cinema of Commoning Symposium 2022.
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27.08.2022

Revitalising Cinemas: Urban Heritage and the Cinema Space

Panel discussion with Marta Baradić, Dominga Sotomayor, Monica Sebestyen, Buse Yıldırım. Moderation: Malve Lippmann.
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12.08.2022

Cinemas within the Capitalist Urban Space: Strategies and Perspectives

Panel discussion with Anouk De Clercq, Héléna Delamarre, Alice De Fornel, Julius Hackspiel, Louise Malherbe, Khalid Al Sabi. Moderation: Jochen Becker.
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09.08.2022

Claiming the Cinema Space: Radical (Re)communalisation of Urban Space

Opening keynote from author and architect Gabu Heindl.
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20.07.2022

An Introduction to the Cinema of Commoning

Prelude speech by Malve Lippman and Can Sungu, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA.
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23.06.2022

Where something like a community develops

Interview with Malve Lippmann and Can Sungu, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA.
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22.06.2022

We need to be visionaries

Interview with Dominga Sotomayer and Ignacio Ocampo, CCC.
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22.06.2022

One Hundred Children Waiting For a Train: The Education of the Gaze

Every Saturday morning, throughout the final years of Chile’s dictatorship, one hundred children of the Hermida settlement, a poor and oppressed neighbourhood in Santiago, get together in a chapel to watch films.

By Antonia Girardi
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21.06.2022

A World Not Ours: a Biography of Palestinian frustration

A World Not Ours (2012) begins with a high angle shot looking down on Ain Al-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian camp in Lebanon 3 km southeast of Sidon, from a nearby peak. It shows the young director accompanied by his father, who explains to him in a tour guide style the geography of the place he had managed to escape many years before. 

By Husam Hilali
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21.06.2022

Majub’s Journey: A Little Known Life

Eva Knopf’s 45-minute documentary Majub’s Journey (2013) tells the incredible story of Majub bin Adam Mohamed Hussein, or Mohamed Husen, as he later came to call himself. Majub was born in German East Africa in the early 20th century, and died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the age of forty.

By Berke Göl
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19.06.2022

Cinemas are fuelled by people

Interview with Butheina Kazim, Cinema Akil.
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17.06.2022

Remake, Remix, Rip-Off: On Copy Culture & Turkish Pop Cinema

Cinema in Turkey was at its prime in the 1960s and 70s. In 1972, as many as 350 films were produced. During this period, the country’s film industry, known as “Yeşilçam” was notorious for its remakes, remixes, and rip-offs. 

By Berke Göl
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16.06.2022

The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On: A Brief History of History Writing

After his return from the war, Kenzo Okuzaki chose to oppose Emperor Hirohito, the man he believed was responsible for war and loss. After firing his slingshot at the Emperor, Kenzo served thirteen years in prison for manslaughter. Upon his release however, he remained obsessed with the idea of resisting the Emperor.

By Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa
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16.06.2022

It is essential to create a space for people to gather 

Interview with Thanaphon Accawatanyu, Documentary Club.
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15.06.2022

Beyond My Steps: Towards a new identity

In Beyond My Steps (2019), directed by Kamy Lara, five Angolan dancers explore the concepts of tradition, culture, memory and identity. Throughout the film, they incessantly question the transformation and deconstruction of these themes in their own lives. The film follows the creation of the 2017 show (De)Construction, choreographed by Mónica Anapaz from the Contemporary Dance Company of Angola.

by Vanessa Sanches
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10.06.2022

How can we bring cinema to us and keep it alive?

Interview with Mirian Vanda, Cine Geração.
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08.06.2022

Powerful storytelling is a source of solidarity

Interview with S. Buse Yildirim, Kundura Cinema.
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02.06.2022

Romania, Mon Amour

Alexandru Belc’s observational documentary Cinema, Mon Amour invites us to follow the daily life of Victor Purice, the administrator of Cinema Dacia Panoramic from Piatra-Neamț, one of the few old cinemas still standing in Romania. While the film serves as an indirect portrait of the current state of Romanian cinemas, on a deeper level it is also a subtle reflection of Romania itself.

by Oana Tarce
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01.06.2022

Cinemas Are Here to Stay

Interview with Monica Sebestyen, Cinema ARTA.
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30.05.2022

The Meetings with The Archive

Since the collective was founded in 2003, archiving and preservation has served as one of the main foundations of Forum Lenteng. By copying and screening materials related to the history of Indonesian cinema, Forum Lenteng has served as a distributor of archive film, helping this work reach other collectives and anyone who is enthusiastic about the history of cinema in this country.

by Hafiz Rancajale
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30.05.2022

Whose eyes are these that we are placing on the subject?

Interview with Yuki Aditya, Forum Lenteng.
30.05.2022

Editors’ Note