BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4151@events.kassel.social SUMMARY:Songs of Hope and Despair: Filmvorführung + Diskussion mit Künstler :innen in English DTSTAMP:20260411T153511Z DTSTART:20260428T170000Z DESCRIPTION:Invitation\n\nThis film is a fairy tale for the generation\, wh ich has much of despaire and\nwho’s only way to imagine the future is the hope\, a generation with no certain\ndate of birth\, but with certain circ umstances of life. What can the\ntrickster-magician\,  Dark Clouds of Apoc alypses\, Fish\, Dead drummer\,\nMuse-Leaving-Germany\, Dice Roll and othe r minor rebel agencies (the protagonists\nof this movie) tell us about our selves living in landscapes marked by ecological\nruin\, failed revolution s\, and the unease of the present?\n\nWhat we want to achieve with this fi lm screening is to open the discussion\nbetween the spectators and the aut hors of the film\, who come to Mainz in the\nhope to find a place where un formal diolog between the people\, who this film was\nmade for and the peo ple who made the film would be possible. Everybody is\nwelcome to come and to participate.\n\nAuthors present: Tsaplya Olga Egorova\, Dmitry Vilensk y\n\nAbout the film\n\nSongs of Hope and Despair (2026) a new film by Chto Delat International directed\nby Tsaplya Olga Egorova is an improvised fa iry tale and highly experimental road\nmovie in which a group of strangely costumed\, non-professional\nperformers—Russian exiles and their friends— set out on an absurd quest for a\nmiracle. Inspired by two key historical works\, Werner Tübke’s Panorama of the\nPeasants’ War and Rainer Werner Fa ssbinder’s The Niklashausen Journey\, the film\nunfolds in the former mini ng town of Hettstedt as an unabashedly lo-fi magical\ngame and tragicomic musical.\n\nOscillating between enchantment and exposure\, mourning and pl ay\, the film asks a\ndeceptively simple question: what does a miracle eve n look like in politically\ndire times like these? Drawing past and presen t into a single ritual procession\,\nSongs of Hope and Despair reflects on manipulation and resistance\, despair and\nstubborn hope\, insisting—like all true fairy tales—on the fragile persistence of\nsolidarity even when history seems trapped in cycles of defeat.\n\n\n\n\n * 18:00 - Küfa\n \n * 19:00 - Beginning of the screening\n \n \n\n\n\n\nMehr Infos\n[http s://haus-mainusch.de/termine/songs-of-hope-and-despair-filmvorfuhrung-disk ussion-mit-kunstlerinnen-in-english/] URL:https://events.kassel.social/event/songs-of-hope-and-despair-filmvorfuh rung-diskussion-mit-kunstlerinnen-in-english GEO:49.9929;8.2401 LOCATION:Haus Mainusch - Staudingerweg 23\, 55128 Mainz STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Rhein-Main,Event,Mainz,Filmvorführung X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Invitation

This film is a fairy tale for the generation, which has much of despaire and who’s only way to imag ine the future is the hope, a generation with no certain date of birth, bu t with certain circumstances of life. What can the trickster-magician,&nbs p; Dark Clouds of Apocalypses, Fish, Dead drummer, Muse-Leaving-Germany, D ice Roll and other minor rebel agencies (the protagonists of this movie) t ell us about ourselves living in landscapes marked by ecological ruin, fai led revolutions, and the unease of the present?

What we want to ach ieve with this film screening is to open the discussion between the specta tors and the authors of the film, who come to Mainz in the hope to find a place where unformal diolog between the people, who this film was made for and the people who made the film would be possible. Everybody is welcome to come and to participate.

Authors present: Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky

About the film

Songs of Hope and Despair (20 26) a new film by Chto Delat International directed by Tsaplya Olga Egorov a is an improvised fairy tale and highly experimental road movie in which a group of strangely costumed, non-professional performers—Russian exiles and their friends—set out on an absurd quest for a miracle. Inspired by tw o key historical works, Werner Tübke’s Panorama of the Peasants’ War and R ainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Niklashausen Journey, the film unfolds in th e former mining town of Hettstedt as an unabashedly lo-fi magical game and tragicomic musical.

Oscillating between enchantment and exposure, mourning and play, the film asks a deceptively simple question: what does a miracle even look like in politically dire times like these? Drawing pas t and present into a single ritual procession, Songs of Hope and Despair r eflects on manipulation and resistance, despair and stubborn hope, insisti ng—like all true fairy tales—on the fragile persistence of solidarity even when history seems trapped in cycles of defeat.



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