The Mediterranean culture has a long-standing tradition of hospitality that dates back to ancient times. Myths tell us the Gods gifted the trade of reciprocal host and guest, give and take, to bring people together through good intentions on both sides, regardless of social class, race, and religion. In today's world, the importance of hospitality cannot be overstated. A two-way street of generosity and reciprocity creates a ripple effect of sharing, exchange, support and inclusion. In continuing to forge alliances and meaningful connections among people of other places and cultural backgrounds, perhaps this tradition is as relevant as ever today and signposts the importance of our shared need to embrace otherness.
Join us at the FMC Screening Room (475 Park Avenue South, 6th Floor) on FRIDAY, MAY 26th, at 7pm, for an engaging program of films relating dance, color, and movement by Tone Glow's Joshua Minsoo Kim!
Sonic Cinema presents Rainer Kohlberger’s Answering the Sun – a maximal, stroboscopic colour odyssey to the limits of human perception. Riffing on the optical phenomenon that occurs when staring at the sun, Kohlberger’s first feature adeptly modernises avant-garde cinema’s long tradition of visual music and flicker in a 60-minute bombardment of coloured fields, Op art geometry, hallucinatory passages, and a wall of sound.
A rare opportunity to meet and see the work of Belgian artist Els Van Riel. Els will screen her 16mm films Gradual Speed, and Fugue, a Light's Travelogue. There will also be a conversation between Els and BEEF members.
