Filmset as Collective Kitchen

We cook the stories we are hungry for! What if the kitchen were given central stage, revealing precious hidden stories? Which politically charged performances take place between the oven and the dinner table? How can we convey the beauty and depth of intimate community moments with a DIY approach? This 3-day workshop, facilitated by Mohamad Moe Sabbah & João Carvalho, is an invitation for storytellers to explore intuitive collaborative filmmaking. The group will weave stories and shots around the script of a wine leaves recipe (Warak Enab). Each participant will have the chance to try out different film crew/performance positions, and most importantly, we will enjoy a meal cooked together. 

Open to storytellers of all practices: filmmakers, videographers, sound recorders, musicians, performers, visual artists, writers, cooks, community organizers and tarot readers, regardless of professional experience.

15 spots at 50€ participation fee + 5 soli spots 20€

Sign up here until 27 May 

Mohamad Moe Sabbah (1990, he/they) is a Lebanese filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist based in Cologne. Observing the world from a queer perspective, his works probe family, bodies, grief, and the porous space between the human and the mythic.

João Carvalho (1994, he/him) is a french transmasculine filmmaker, producer and visual artist based in Berlin. His work explores alternative and embodied experiences of time, and the ways film sets can work as platforms for community organizing and collective envisioning.