Habibi Kiosk goes Werkraum x Cemile Sahin

In the organizer's words:

Scenic reading from the novel "ALLE HUNDE STERBEN" & film screening of "BIHAR", followed by an artist talk with Cemile Sahin
moderated by Fatima Khan

The Habibi Kiosk team presents works by award-winning artist, author and filmmaker Cemile Sah in in the Werkraum of the Kammerspiele: For the first time, Sahin's novel "ALLE HUNDE STERBEN" can be experienced as a staged reading on a stage.We will also be showing the Munich premiere of her feature film "BIHAR" (Kurdish: Spring; 2022, 43 min.) .This will be followed by an artist talk with the artist, moderated by Fatima Khan.

Cemile Sahin works with the media of film, photography, sculpture and literature. Word and image are inextricably linked in her work. She is particularly interested in how historiography works and how images and media are used to instrumentalize and manipulate. The narrative style of her work draws on an episodic narrative format that often draws the viewer into unexpected insights. In her works, she also deals extensively with forms and representations of (state) violence, including in her novels "TAXI" (2019) and "ALLE HUNDE STERBEN" (2020).

In ALLE HUNDE STERBEN, Cemile Sahin tells the story in nine episodes of nine people who find exile in a high-rise building in western Turkey. They have all experienced torture, violence and abduction by units of the Turkish army and police. Among them: A mother who loads her dead son onto a pick-up truck. A woman chained up in a dog kennel. While they talk about their escape, the systematic terror of the Turkish military catches up with them.

BIHAR (Kurdish for spring) is the first part of the four-part feature film series "Four Ballads for My Father" by Cemile Sahin. One of the main themes is water, in particular the economic and political impact of the GAP dam project on the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the Kurdish regions of Turkey. The GAP project has become a serious threat to the neighboring countries of Syria and Iraq. The film tells the story of a Kurdish family whose home has been flooded by a Turkish dam project and whose members are scattered between Istanbul, Paris and in transit. In vignette after vignette, we meet members of the family and snippets of their lives, all united by their connection to their missing husband, friend and father Hassan.

The narrative makes use of various genres and combines documentary, political thriller, film noir, melodrama and telenovela to create a film that, despite its confrontation with structural violence, is witty and light-hearted. As is so often the case in Sahin's works, fact and fiction cannot always be distinguished from one another.

• Film & novel Cemile Sahin
• Curation & Installation Reading Dîlan Z. Çapan
• Scenic reading with Antigone Akgün, Svetlana Belesova, Dara Lalo , Edith Saldanha
• Set design Reading Julia Bahn
• Music selection Sebastian Reier
• Moderation Artist Talk Fatima Khan

Price information:

Normal price 10.00 EUR People with disabilities 5.00 EUR U-30 ticket 10.00 EUR