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Hi People
Tomorrow we will meet at 12 a.m. in Bethaninen to see the space. Feel free to join.
It´s right at Mariannenplatz, Kreuzberg
See you
V

2012
so many voices for the new monday ponday date.
wir sitzen alle im selben boot: the kodex ends.
how can we push nuklearism to maya jaguar warrior buttons?
sounds too exotic?
we start with a gentle lo-fi memory of our first EDUCATION date and show

Missile(1987)
Dir. Frederick Wiseman
the christian science monitor proudly prescribes:
“[MISSILE] does not frighten viewers with melodramatic scenes of atomic holocaust, nuclear winter or East-West confrontations. Instead, it merely documents the step-by-step training of the intelligent, responsible, sincere and likable men and women who have their fingers on the controls of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The officers selected for training and their instructors appear to be of high moral caliber. But the calmness, responsibility and intelligence with which they face the potential destruction of our civilization is what makes MISSILE so unnerving; it brings home that nuclear war could really happen. Wiseman continues his unique obsession to force viewers to experience — and reevaluate — American institutions at first hand.”
DONT FORGET YOUR ATOMIC WAR SURVEYS
on your personal
MONDAY SCREENING DATE
next monday
9-1-2012
r. 115
18uhr am nachmittag
hardenberg 33

The show around “Now!” will most probably take place from 23.2.-6.3 at Projektraum Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. Vincent will coordinate. Please do have viable projects ready for presentation by next Monday.
Jalal Toufic will present his new book soon, too. Dates etc. tba very soon. Do come.
Wish you all a nice, cosy and confrontational 2012.
your educational service provider truly.

friend please come to monday screening this monday – these heavy metal ghouls form the monday screening team want to show THREADS one of the scariest nuke-holocaust films I’v ever seen. Do come – I cannot sit there alone in this supercomfortable surrounding with the warm lights and the 1 euro 17 cents beer (with own mondayscreening badges) and watch the end of the world – because thats just when I need you and you need me and we can come together.
Thats right friends. Monday screening shows you what your future looks like – no future! And thats the british way of course so lets hool together in our parkas and take a look at the sweet uk violence surprise. Of course they didnt invent the pershing II nor the tsar bomb but their anxiety truly was the ring around the mushroom stem. We show

PROTECT AND SURVIVE

british eductian sereis from 80s
http://survivalprimer.com/Protect%20and%20Survive.htm
preparing british households for the unavoidable.
THREADS

bbc production,GB 1984, dir: mick jackson
low-fi british workerfamily style – worst-case-scenario? i dont think so, we can do much better.
they cant trick me with their pseudo documentary stuff from 30 years ago – boring!
today we have i am legend and the road and stuff, now that is scary!
??? come and watch.
THE WAR GAME
GB 1965, dir: peter watkins
peter watkins fake interview game aroundabout “this also could be nuclear war”
nuclear war isnt always funny? Find out and come around –
MONDAY SCREENING


HOLOCAUST


12.12.11 HUI MONDAY

RAUM ONE ONE FIVE

18 O’KLOK
UDK HQ HARDENBERG ³³
warmwintertimes.tumblr.com

brilliant sketch by Lena and Kornelia on interns vs. extras, Platos cave vs Arendts space of appearance, res extensa vs. essence, community vs. common; as mediated by cinematic projection

in a world where your magnitude shrank to a scientific scribbeling, where your endeavours are but a single tin can in the vaults of world commodity-creation.
who is not dreaming in hers/his personal laboratory mirroring the convex face in the test tubes?
who not wants to set sail for the ocean of self-dicovery!
it is easier than you think
lern how to activate your very potentials – using the secrets of the universe –
become an
ATOMIC SUPER HERO:

– The Atlas rested on the launching pad… then, slowly at first, began to rise… 
What of the man inside? – 
Terry Curtis (born Terrence Kurtzenberg, he had later Anglicized his name) was an atomic scientist in the 1930s and 1940s. He was working as a technician in a special experimental rocket (Atlas) when it accidentally launched with him trapped inside.
“…as the Atlas climbed into the sky the dense troposphere would give way 10 miles out to the thinner stratosphere… then at 50 miles, it was in the ionosphere – the atomic warhead was set to explode at 300 miles above earth (…) The heat generated by the rocket as it accelerated to 20’000 MPH was unbearable. Everything grew too warm too quickly. The perspiration on my face dried, the moisture in my body vanished.” 
Then, precisely on schedule, the warhead in the Atlas nose cone was triggered.
“…I could see a huge beam of projected light flooding up into infinity. It was like a laser light, caused by the ionisation. It was light-bluish, and it was very beautiful. I watched it for several seconds. Then the light took me to pieces. At that instant of fission, I was not flesh, bone and blood at all…” 
The desiccated molecular skeleton was intact but a change, never known to man, had taken place.
“…I began to feel sick. I knew one of the first symptoms of radiation illness was vomiting, but I was thinking, have I eaten something? I was trying to keep the worst thoughts at bay. It was impossible to say how much radiation I had taken in, but I knew it was a large dose.”
warmwintertimes.tumblr.com
http://lensbased.net/wiki/index.php/Monday_screening:warm_winter

We ll read brillant text by GD huberman on extras (Kornelia and Lena will present) and watch this ama ing work belonging to the equally ama ing genre of pornomiseria (courtesy of Pablo Lafuente):
Aggarando Pueblo, 1978
“When writing film criticism was not enough, Mayolo and I chose to put it into practice in films themselves. This is why we made Agarrando pueblo, as a response to the proliferation of poverty-porn in our field and in the Third World. It was like a gob of spit in the soup of Third World film, and it earned us a great deal of criticism and ostracism in European and Latin American festivals, used as they are to swallow tinned poverty so that their bad conscience is at rest.” (Luis Ospina) Agarrando pueblo (a Colombian idiom meaning “to fool people”) recreates the story of a couple of film directors desperately looking for poverty in the streets of Cali and even manipulating reality when they fail to find what they are looking for. Film in film, denunciation of vampirism at its purest, this film presents reality in the guise of fiction and, in doing so, makes a categorical statement on the opportunistic discourse of Latin American documentary (and documentaries on Latin America) in the 1970s