Film

They will have to kill us first

D: Johanna Schwartz, UK 2015, 100 min, English subtitles

Sat, Jan 16, 2016

Lecture Hall

3 pm

Free admission

Followed by Q&A with Songhoy Blues

“The instruments are our Kalashnikovs.” In 2012 Islamist rebels placed a ban on music in northern Mali.

Johanna Schwartz traces the stories of the female singers Khaira Arby and Fadimata “Disco” Walet Oumar, recounting how the musicians from Songhoy Blues met in the capital Bamako, a city populated by hundreds of thousands of refugees.

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Feb 12–21, 2016

Generation

Berlinale im HKW
Jan 16, 2016

wittmann/zeitblom: Is Everybody In?

Welcome to the world’s most violent game —without meaning, rules or scores. A remote-controlled bomb hits its target, an audio-visual machine of images, beats, bass-heavy apocalyptic dubs and voices drives the prism of Deleuzian control societies.
Jan 16, 2016

Tobago Crusoe and the Kalypso Katz: We Declare War

News about Hitler, Churchill and Montgomery in song format: In the Caribbean, Calypso traditionally served as a melodious wall newspaper.
Jan 16, 2016

Songhoy Blues

Blues against tyranny: After the Islamist militias seized power in northern Mali in 2012, music could only be played behind closed doors.

They will have to kill us first

Generation

wittmann/zeitblom: Is Everybody In?

Tobago Crusoe and the Kalypso Katz: We Declare War

Songhoy Blues