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GRRL HAUS BERLIN presents
Spring Documentary Screening // Oblomov Thursday 10.04.2025 Oblomov – Lenaustraße 7, Berlin, DE Doors at 19h
Screening at 20h 5 - 10€ entry |
Featuring the following films in order:
Come In and Exit, by Fiona Ahrens 13:53 QIRIM, by Kateryna Khramtsova 09:43 Three Encounters on the Volcano, by Kate Martyr 12:13 BREAK 15 mins Antigamente Éramos Antigos, by Carolina Cardoso 04:38 Archiv-Memory, by Christina Harles 29:20 |
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Come In and Exit
by Fiona Ahrens 13:53 Mythology prints, faces of punk icons, vibrant colors, and shredded, tied-together fabrics. Performers from Berlin's queer artist scene showcase a variety of looks from the Berlin-based avant-garde unisex punk fashion label, Exit. Colombian-American designer and father Juan Chamié works and lives in a small shop in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. As more of his designs are revealed, we gain evolving insights into the passionate artist behind the work, as well as the people who shape this unique space. Fiona Ahrens is a young transgender filmmaker from Berlin. She has completed various internships in film rentals, on set, in post-production, and at film festivals. For the second time, she has worked for the queer Teddy Award at the Berlinale as an interview editor. Fiona also regularly works on student and independent film sets as a camera assistant and freelances as an assistant editor. The short doc and artist portrait 'Come in and Exit' marks her debut film. It was primarily a solo production from start to finish, filmed in 2024, with post-production completed by February 2025. Fiona is currently applying to media art schools and promoting her film. |
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QIRIM by Kateryna Khramtsova 09:43 On 25 of February 2022, Antonina Romana and her partner joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Before the full scale Russian invasion to Ukraine, she lived a life as a director, performer and actress. See her personal journey of resistance to Russian occupation policies. Kateryna Khramtsova (*1999) Studied law in Kharkiv. After moving to Prague in 2019, she has been focusing on visual arts and activism. In her works, she deals with the themes of social injustice, psychological problems and human rights. |
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Three Encounters on the Volcano
by Kate Martyr 12:13 It's a triptych of encounters on La Palma, a volcanic island that experienced a devastating eruption in 2021. It's kind of a poem about living as part of a vast, unknowable and uncontrollable universe, and an attempt at capturing the magic that comes with the chaos if you are bold enough to let it. It was created as part of La Selva's 3rd Film Accelerator 2024: a ridiculously intense two-week workshop with guidance from Werner Herzog and his cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger. It contains music composed by a friend, Josh, who is from the London-based folk group, Shovel Dance Collective and graphics designed by another lovely friend, Skip. Kate grew up in a working-class social housing estate in the Midlands, UK and never thought she would be a filmmaker, although she was always making skate videos with her sister in the 2000s. She got into video through journalism: initially working as a land warfare arms journalist in London, before moving to Deutsche Welle where she works as an editor and self-shooting producer on social media and broadcast reports. She's produced from countries such as Poland, Japan and the UK and is heading to Nepal soon to tell a story about yaks. In 2024, she spent two weeks with filmmaking pioneer Werner Herzog and his cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger as part of the 3rd Film Accelerator: Under the volcano. During the two-week workshop, she shot and produced her first experimental short documentary: Three encounters on the volcano. She is currently working on a longer documentary about a trans Argentinian sex worker, which is being produced by Paris-based Colombian producer Hector Ulloque Franco. She also works as a freelance self-shooting director on the Warner Bros-produced German television show Bares für Rares - Händlerstücke which airs on German national broadcaster ZDF. |
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Antigamente Éramos Antigos
by Carolina Cardoso 04:38 During the autumn harvest, in Trás-os-Montes (Portuguese for "behind the mountains") an elderly couple craft wine by hand, preserving a fading tradition with love and dedication. Carolina Cardoso is an artist and video editor based in Berlin. She studied Multimedia Art at the Fine Arts University in Lisbon and Film Production in Berlin. Since then, she’s edited a mix of short films, commercials, and award-winning projects—like Du Bist So Wunderbar, which won the Pardino d'Argento at the Locarno Film Festival. She’s into DIY and experimental filmmaking and loves mixing design, painting, video, and other multimedia projects. |
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Archive-Memory
by Christina Harles 29:20 Archive-Memory is about the first feminist youth centre for girls in Berlin, which was founded in 1980 in the district of Wedding and still exists today. The short film documents archival research, feminist community film work and a workshop with the center's current young members. The participants interact with the archive of their youth centre through a memory game. The cards show film stills and flyers of films from the Mädchenladen Wedding. They were shot by and with the visitors, inspired by methods of the video movement of the 1980s and show the political work of the centre. For Archive-Memory, the videos were viewed and digitised for the first time by filmmaker Christina Harles. Based on the video archive of Mädchenladen Wedding, she invited the girls from today's meeting place MÄDEA - Stiftung SPI to a film workshop, where the girls made their own short film together. In Archive-Memory, footage from the archive, such as digitised videos, are mixed with shots from today. Different generations use the cards to talk about their memories of a space just for girls. The girls playfully approach the feminist history of their meeting place and continue to write it themselves. Christina Harles works as an artist and educator across media including film, archives and textiles. She studied Cultural Studies, Aesthetics and Applied Art in Hildesheim, Art and Politics at Goldsmith College in London and Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts. In her work she deals with political and poetic aspects of emotions, collective processes and knowledge production. She works with archives of queer-feminist movements and memory through community videos. In various formats, she is interested in the connection between speculative fiction and questions of social justice. She prefers to work collaboratively with different groups, artists, activists and students. |
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