How, in a transnational society, can a new kind of cinema be collectively shaped?
With SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, launched in 2020 at Haus der Statistik on Alexanderplatz, bi'bak initiated a cinema experiment underpinned by an understanding of cinema as a space of social discourse, exchange and solidarity. At its new location in Berlin-Wedding, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA establishes itself as a transnational space for film culture, art, knowledge and community, creating a bridge between urban space and film as cultural practice. Here a place is created where urbanity and transnationalism coexist, a place that enables access, stimulates discussion, educates, moves, provokes and encourages.
"Transtopia" is the term used by migration researcher Erol Yıldız to describe spaces “where transnational ties and connections converge, are reinterpreted, and condense into everyday contexts.” Following on from this, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA links geographies both near and far, taking into consideration their narratives, pasts, presents and futures. Cinema here becomes a meeting place where people come together not only to witness film, but to experience a space of lively discourse, of living, working and learning together. SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA thus stands for a cinema that sees itself as a social place simultaneously committed to local and international communities, one that regards film-historical work as the work of cultural remembrance and that is dedicated to a diversity of film culture and film art.
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA is a project by bi'bak.
ARTISTIC DIRECTION
Malve Lippmann, Can Sungu
PROGRAM COORDINATION
Dalia Soliman
PROJECT COORDINATION
Galo E. Rivera, Nora Bess
ADMINISTRATION
Anna Krauss
EDITORIAL, TRANSLATION
Bethan Hughes
COMMUNICATIONS
Duygu Atçeken, Bethan Hughes, Haidy Alrafie
INTERNS
Jule Dieterle
PROJECTIONISTS
Anand Angarag, Aghyad Abou Koura, Florian Höhensteiger, Clelia Villarreal, Kenza Madsen
FRONT OF HOUSE
Rodrigo Aguilera, Galo E. Rivera, Anna Simbeck, Victor Corrales, Lamar Hamdalla, Arielle Cottingham
SİNEMA HANE TEAM
Anna Simbeck, Imel Mandala, Shanzeh Usman
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Jan Grygoriew / jangry.com
Enoka Ayemba
Hadi Alipanah
Iskandar Abdalla
Sun-ju Choi
Popo Fan
Ahmet Gürata & John Sundholm
Yaella Gottlieb
Tara Balok & Luisa Matthias
Ehsan Khoshbakht
Merle Kröger & Mareike Bernien
Malve Lippmann
Afsun Moshiry
Léa Morin
Irit Neidhardt
Thaís Omine
Lisabona Rahman
Galo E. Rivera
Arindam Sen
Promona Sengupta
Sebahattin Şen
Can Sungu
Slavs & Tatars
Darunee Terdtoontaveedej
Sarnt Utamachote
Gary Vanisian
Tang Xuedan Echo
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