Dok Night – benefit dinner for Gaza by Ismail & friends + SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

Every Thursday there’s a Vegan Dinner accompanying an exhibition opening/closing, a live performance, live music, movie screening or ...
Come meet other people interested in art and activism, good food and great prices. Bring your favourite game and your friends. Or meet new people at the bar.

18u bar open

19u benefit dinner for Gaza by Ismail Ziada & Friends

20u30 Symbiopsychotaxicinema, a film evening presentd by Jeffrey Babcock

SKUPLJACI PERJA 1967
(I even met Happy Gypsies)
Directed by Aleksandar Petrović
85 minutes
Serbo-Croatian and Romani with english subtitles

This is considered to be one of the crucial ‘black wave’ movies coming out of Yugoslavia in the 1960s. These movies wanted to explore new ground and taboo topics. This one, in particular, centers on the lives of the Romani/gypsy community.... A community of people creating their own world outside of our well-regulated society. Unlike the films of Tony Gatlif and Emir Kusturica, this flick isn’t a colorful depiction of this community, but instead throws us into their everyday life in the Serbian countryside, but in a deeply rich way.

If the black-wave films from this era were anything, they were unsentimental, and their freshness and vitality comes from fully engaging with life on all levels. This film is filled with harsh realities, but also incredibly tender moments – it is lush, swirling with passion, and always riveting. The main character in many ways isn’t even likable... and he is not someone you are meant to identify with. This movie is more like a road trip that you have been privileged to take, where you meet unusual people you are touched by, not because you identify with someone, but rather because an incredible world unfolds. The film is like a breeze from the south, and for me it even has a kind of almost pagan mood. One of the most important movies to come out of former Yugoslavia, a real gem in terms of reflecting on, and capturing, the vitality of life.

It’s the kind of film that takes you by the collar and drags you into another world – one of ecstasy, harshness, poetry, poverty, real dilemmas, and magic. It won the Academy Award for best foreign film in 1967, Best Foreign Film Oscar in 1967 and the Special Jury Prize at Cannes.

SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXICINEMA

A series of socially engaged movies, screened once a month on Thursdays. Touching on such hot topics as immigration, homelessness, racism, education, radical gender propositions, the pandemic and gentrification, these films not only explore visionary politics, but are also chosen to stir our imagination and creativity. The essence of cinema is the collective experience, and these screenings are aimed at creating intimate communities again in an increasingly hectic and fragmented world.