The Deception of Reality, The Truth of the Document
Varun Sasindran, Paul Heintz
28.03 from 8pm

Our next screening as part of de:talks will explore the reality of documentary cinema—where its boundaries of authenticity lie and whether it can truly capture reality.

In his first major work, The Deception of Romanticism and the Truth of the Novel, French philosopher René Girard argues that our desires stem from the desires of others: I long for what my neighbor possesses, I feel envy and resentment, I harbor bitterness. As a result, people turn to the simplest way of resolving accumulated contradictions—violence. In fiction, violence serves as an outlet for energies born from an underlying conflict. But how does a documentary use violence?

Documentary cinema convinces us that violence has truly happened—it is real. And from this, it seems to follow that real violence carries more weight than fictional violence. But can we, through the reality of the document, uncover the true causes of violence? Perhaps its source lies within us and our desires.

This Friday, we are screening two documentary films: Character (Paul Heintz) and Omarska (Varun Sasindran). Orwellian dystopian figures in contemporary London and a shocking document—interviews with former prisoners of a Bosnian concentration camp erased from the face of the earth.

Omarska – Varun Sasindran 19’
Character – Paul Heintz 38’

28.03, from 8pm
Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

@k1no1_cinema

jambú
un film de Claudius. (18′, 2025)
Saturday March 29, 7pm

Motto / K1no1
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

Живая
Юля Андриянова

Tаван Cершывам
Виктория Салтар

Жар-птица
Лилиан Рубцова

Старое весло
cybermedusa

Cамоубитые роскомнадзором
Максим Евстропов

НЕСКОЛЬКО ПРОСТЫХ ПРАВИЛ ДЛЯ ПРИЕЗЖИХ ИНОПЛАНЕТЯН
Регина

Картофель фри
Таро Муратов

Камень
Арсений Агеев
(См. ШИРЕ)
Вероника

Непозма
Мария фокусия

Кавабанга
Анна Бородина

Табличка
Лиза Петрова

Rodina – самиздат свободной литературы. Мы хотим использовать свободу слова как инструмент под- держки благотворительных инициатив. Через актуальную ху- дожественную литературу мы осмысляем контекст Войны и рос- сийской цензуры, исследуем этические вопросы сложившейся реальности. Мы верим, что нам поможет деятельное знание. Rodina издается в Берлине и является независимой, част- ной инициативой, не принадлежащей никакому политическому течению или общественному объединению. Мы не преследуем коммерческие цели, все вырученные средства распределяются между благотворительными фондами. В первом выпуске мы собрали двенадцать текстов, затраги- вающих тему войны, прав человека, ЛГБТК+, феминизма, свобо- ды слова. Мы публикуем тексты в авторской редакции. Издание выходит в трёх обложках. Спасибо всем авторам, фотографам, друзьям и читателям за участие и поддержку. Rodina – наша мечта о родине без насилия.

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Art and life are directly connected, and yes, they complement each other. From observations of the quotidian, especially those in the public space, I extract insights through experimenting and researching which I then transform into artistic shape. What takes form in art does not only stimulate but significantly shape public discourse. I deliberately chose situations that appear uncomfortable at first. Dark corners, draughty gaps, and yes, discuss- ing the ‘in-between-ness’ of place and non- place is one of my concerns. Often through site-specific interventions, through performa- tive actions I detect the ‘lostness’ in such places. I always look for what’s present, there- fore work from the construction to display the inherent potential of such a place and also readily activate it in participative moments. To make as much as possible with as little as necessary – make visible, make perceptible – is the aim of my artistic practise.

Autor: Stefanie Klingemann

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www.stefanieklingemann.de
@stefanieklingemann
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http://un.titled.be
@unknown.artists.collective

@ Motto Paris
Saturday 01.03.2025,
from 6pm
/ 2021
Stefanie Klingemann and  travel and work together on and besides the road, in public space and in temporary arrangements. On their ways they develop site- and context-specific interventions in existing structures and found situations. The compositions they create are often poetic, silent, and usually of ephemeral duration. At Motto Paris they present a set of postcards of this practice. 

 presents his recently realised oral publication “Erzählungen (1982– )” along with a set of posters “Outlines & Scenarios” – an ongoing collection of scenarios and sketches being rolled out and talked about in various conversations.

Motto Paris
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

(image: Stefanie Klingemann &  at Villa Romana, Florence. 2021)ce )

ENTRE DOS AGUAS
Carlos León Zambrano

Sound Performance

Friday 14.02
8:30pm (sharp)

МОТТО
Skalitzerstr 68
BERLIN

This Sunday, January 12 at 7:00 PM, we will discuss hauntological narratives, nostalgia for places we have never been, and we will show two films:

Ewan Golder – Binary Love  A retrofuturistic dystopia about aging lovers and dating apps in dreams.
Txema Novelo – Déjalo Ser  A shamanic journey of poets in the Oaxaca desert, filmed on 8mm.

January 12  Motto  38 rue du Vertbois  75003 Paris

This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.

Rob Fitterman @ Motto Berlin. January 5, 2025
Accompanied By Shane Anderson
Start 6pm sharp

Please join us at Motto Berlin for a Poetry Reading event with Rob Fitterman and Shane Anderson.

Robert Fitterman is the author of 16 books of poetry. His most recent book, Creve Coeur, is a long poem recently published with Winter Editions (2024). Other titles include: This Window Makes Me Feel (Ugly Duckling Presse), No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (Ugly Duckling Presse), Nevermind (Wonder Books) and Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books). He has collaborated with several visual artists, including Serkan Ozkaya, Nayland Blake, Sabine Herrmann, Natalie Czech, Tim Davis, and Klaus Killisch. He is the founding member of the artists-poets collective Collective Task www.collectivetask.org. He lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University.

Shane Anderson is the author of After the Oracle, Or: How The Golden State Warriors’ Four Core Values Can Change Your Life Like They Changed Mine (Deep Vellum). Published work in various forms can be found in various places. A translator of a number of contemporary German poets, he is also the translator of The Great Nowitzki (Norton). He is represented by Priscilla Posada at Regal | Hoffmann & Associates and lives in Wuppertal with his family.

Published to accompany an exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 27 September – 26 November 2000

The work of French artist Philippe Thomas revolves around the ideas of reality and fiction. As such, there is an aesthetic ambiguity at its core: all the physical elements involved in the creation, exhibition and circulation of an artwork (the work itself, the artist, the audience, galleries and museums, etc.) oscillate between values of reality and fiction. In keeping with this, Thomas registered the trademark les ready-made appartinnent à tout le monde® and used it to fictionalise his own identity. The catalogue includes pieces created by Thomas from the seventies until his death in 1995 along with essays by writers such as Corinne Diserens, Patricia Falguières, Daniel Soutif and Bernard Blistène.

Design by Ramon Prat, Montse Sagarra and David Lorente (Actar). 2000