Uncommon Grounds: Two Sides of the Moon / Taming the Garden

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Screening

19.06.2022 / 17:30 – 21:30
With Salomé Jashi, Som Supaparinya

18:30 Som Supaparinya, Two Sides of the Moon, 2021, 31 min (screening)
Screening version: single channel
(black and white, audio, duration 31:15 minutes)

Two Sides of the Moon features the life of fishermen at the beginning and the ending areas of the Moon River where it joins the Mekong Rivera as a Thai-Laos border. Each location faced to the change of the riverscape by the man-made dam, but their stories and how it is impact to their life are opposite. One community started to learn how to fish, and the other counting names of extinct fish and tools. The concept of light and darkness derives from the moon shines and shades, contrastingly the two sides, reveals the unequal destinies.
Forum 2021.
Som Supaparinya was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2021.

19:30 Salomé Jashi, Taming the Garden, 2021, 92 min (screening)

Salomé Jashi‘s captivating documentary film moves the concept of uprooting from its metaphorical meaning into an oppressive, tangible and yet surreal reality. Condensating a story of power, wealth and the conquest of nature, the film depicts an extremely wealthy and powerful man who collects old trees, which he has dug out and brought to his garden.
Born in 1981 in Tbilisi, Georgia, Salomé Jashi studied journalism and completed a degree in documentary film. Taming the Garden is her second feature-length film following her award-winning debut The Dazzling Light of Sunset (2016). It was premiered at Berlinale Forum 2021.
Salomé Jashi was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2020.

Before and after the event, works by Shadi Habib Allah, Pallavi Paul (Nayi Kheti/New Harvest, 2013), Alicja Rogalska (Dark Fibres, 2021) are on view at the daadgalerie. Therefore, the doors already open at 5 pm.

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Free admission

Picture credit: Som Supaparinya, Two Sides of the Moon (2021), film still