BITTER THINGS is a research-based exhibition project by bi’bak that explores the impact of labor migration on the notion of motherhood from the perspectives of women migrant workers and children left-behind. In their installation, artists Malve Lippmann and Can Sungu take experiences of transnational families from both past and present as a point of departure and bring narratives together with silent objects, which fill the physical distance within the families.
The detailed program: http://bi-bak.de/category/bitterthings/
Mellow Mud (2016, Latvia)
Director: Renārs Vimba
Thursday, 27 Sep 2018 at 19:30
Free admission
Screening is followed by a Q&A with the director Renārs Vimba
Nobody shall know about the death of their grandmother. In order to escape the state's care, the 17-year-old Raya and her little brother bury the woman they grew up with in the garden of the local apple orchard. Raya alone organizes the daily survival for herself and her brother and puts all hope in the mother who emigrated to England.
http://bi-bak.de/bibakino/mellow-mud/
Event Guest: Renārs Vimba
In 2008, Renārs Vimba enrolled in the Latvian Academy of Culture, where he studied cinematography; later he went to study under Boris Frumin at the Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn; in 2011, he received an MA in Film Direction from the Academy of Culture. His film Mellow Mud has received the Latvian National Film Award Lielais Kristaps for Best Fiction Film. Vimba is currently working on his second feature, Sanctus.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/278020232
Language: Latvian with English subtitles
Screenings start at 20:00. Please make sure you arrive before the start of the film.
