The Night of Contemporary Silent Movies at Babylon Cinema

The Babylon Cinema presents this weekend two contemporary interpretations of silent movies.

At Saturday night, these films are shown:

Don Giovanni in Sweden, D/IT 2016

Cinema Cantabile developed this unique format which combines opera and cinema. This time they dealt with one of the most multi-layered oeuvres in music history: “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Don Giovanni returns to his village and the story about passion, obsession and tragedy takes its course. All the characters on the screen do not talk or sing themselves. Opera singers who are present in the cinema theatre synchronize their lip movements.
It is up to the audience to decide whether it is the screen or the live music who is telling the truth.

Trailer at https://vimeo.com/189598843 (https://vimeo.com/189598843)

Möbius, D/J/N 2016

The sculptures and costumes of artists Shimizu and Renberg form the dreamlike story world of Möbius. Over two acts (Prelude-Möbius), the film traces the intertwined events of a bygone village vegetable stall, a back alley sake bar and sub-desert landscapes, via a Punch & Judy puppet theatre play. When waking up on a dried out seabed littered with skeletal remains, a Shepherd then faces a world of sheep, banana juggling sailors and a party of rococo styled hedonists. They are all heading up a tower evoking the fossilized shell of an ammonite.

Trailer at https://vimeo.com/189125312

Admission is free, still it might be a good idea to get your reservation before directly at Babylon Cinema or at http://www.babylonberlin.de/ticketonline.htm

Meeting Point

Usually, Meetup participants stay for a chat and drinks after the event. As this will be quite late this time, I would suggest to meet beforehand.

So, if you want to join us for a drink before, I would suggest to meet at 22:00 in front of Babylon Cinema, directly at the street sign of the corner Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße/Weydingerstraße (i.e., here: https://goo.gl/maps/E2vDhv77RSr ). We can then collect the reserved tickets and look for a place to have a drink.

If you can't make for the drink, we meet again at the very same place at 23:30. Please note that you have to collect reserved tickets until 23:30.