Audre Lorde-The
Berlin Years |
With these words Elisa Rosi, the owner of Lichtblick Kino, a small independent theater in Berlin, asked to screen Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 every third Tuesday of the month in 2017! She had already shown the film six times since August. More screenings take place in Moviemento Kino, another Berlin theater, in December, one of them as part of the Berlin Art Film Festival. Encouraged by this surge of interest, which may be attributed to the political situation, we are presently contacting other theaters in Germany. These have been amazing months for the film. Since August, we have had 18 screenings, two of them as far away as in Glasgow, Scotland and in Nicosia, Cyprus. In Nicosia, the ILGA (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) showed the film at their annual European conference. A broad variety of organizations showed the film:
We have received enthusiastic reports from the organizers of these events. Screenings are already being organized in Leipzig, Nürnberg, Prague and at New College in Sarasota, Florida for the beginning of 2017. Here the link to short videos of Audre Lorde in Berlin, including several in which she reflects on her poetic work two months before her passing – www.vimeo.com/audrelordeinberlin On the film web site you can link to our YouTube channel with a number of videos of Audre as well as many interviews with viewers of the film. The other big news is the launching of the digital Audre Lorde Berlin City Tour (http://audrelordeberlin.com) You do not have to be in Berlin to experience Audre in many of the places which she lived in, worked, and enjoyed time with friends. You hear and see Audre recite poems and discuss the meaning of one of her poems, you hear her talk about her relationship with Black Germans, encourage Afro-germans to write, give her view on the fall of the wall and German racism, discuss organizing with South-African author and activist Ellen Kuzwayo, offer us her political credo, reminisce on her childhood. You see her shopping with street vendors, dancing, paddling a boat on a lake. You can visit all the places where Audre lived, as you move around in the Berlin of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Here a few examples of comments we received:
We have not only expanded the City Tour, but also made it more manageable. There will soon be a Table of Contents for all the locations! Please share the Tour with friends and colleagues! And please use the Contact page and let us know your critical comments. Audre Lorde’s words, her visions, her ways of relating and acting, continue to be ever more relevant! For all of us! Click HERE to
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