Screening of "Nostalgia" (1971) by American film maker Hollis Frampton – an "avant-garde classic considered eloquent and evocative explorations of memory and family" – with a brief introduction by Katharina Dunst and short conversation with special guest Werner von Mutzenbecher.

Screening starts at 19hrs.
Bar: 18:00 – 22:00
Drink du jour: Old Fashioned

CIRCUMSTANCES

Circumstances is a project that produces everyday, fragmentary and surreal stories through joint ad-hoc music making. It deals with the possibilities of a common intuitive language, beyond already determined forms of musical articulation and the related experience of a kind of fragile, changing community. Circumstances is in the tradition of intuitive music. Apart from the instruments and a time frame, there are no agreements. The auditory artefacts of the interplay provide musical, stylistic and textual references to personal and environmental events, incidents and circumstances. The collective is using different acoustic setups - one is an instrumental one with midi saxophone, thunder sheet, modified Fender Rhodes, Timpani and vocals and an electronic one with modular synthesisers such as the Buchla and Eurorack including kinetic sound generation.

Cast:
Martina Buzzi
Li Tavor
Nicolas Buzzi
Daniel V. Keller

Concert: 19hrs
Bar: from 18hrs

THE INTIMATE PHOTOGRAPHER

Based on the two bodies of works by Jenny Rova "Älskling - a selfportrait through my lover’s eyes" and "Letters I didn’t send", Doris Gassert (Curator, Fotomuseum Winterthur) and Katharina Dunst (Art historian and curator of the exhibition) will speak on various photographic approaches of how the intimate is applied as a conceptual strategy in contemporary photography and beyond.

Conversation: 19hrs
Bar: from 18hrs

"The Color of Pomegranates" (1968) by Soviet director Sergei Parajanov (1924–1990)

Completed in 1968 but not seen abroad for more than a decade thereafter, the film most simply described as a series of tableaus that recount the life of the 18th-century poet and troubadour turned monk who was known as Sayat Nova (a Persian sobriquet that means "King of Songs"). In "The Color of Pomegranates", Sayat Nova’s poems are seen rather than heard. There is some voiceover but little dialogue in an ebb-and-flow soundtrack that alternates wailing folk melodies with choral chanting. The film draws on Sayat Nova’s imagery: Angels with flat halos and wooden wings, a pasteboard cloud descending as a vision, the constant repetition of key props including books, silver balls and ornate rugs. Fruits seem to bleed and books to weep. Animals, particularly goats and sheep, are ubiquitous. Impassive actors engage in dancelike gestures while staring straight into the camera.

Screening: 19hrs
Bar: from 18hrs