The Deception of Reality, The Truth of the Document
Varun Sasindran, Paul Heintz
28.03 from 8pm

Our next screening as part of de:talks will explore the reality of documentary cinema—where its boundaries of authenticity lie and whether it can truly capture reality.

In his first major work, The Deception of Romanticism and the Truth of the Novel, French philosopher René Girard argues that our desires stem from the desires of others: I long for what my neighbor possesses, I feel envy and resentment, I harbor bitterness. As a result, people turn to the simplest way of resolving accumulated contradictions—violence. In fiction, violence serves as an outlet for energies born from an underlying conflict. But how does a documentary use violence?

Documentary cinema convinces us that violence has truly happened—it is real. And from this, it seems to follow that real violence carries more weight than fictional violence. But can we, through the reality of the document, uncover the true causes of violence? Perhaps its source lies within us and our desires.

This Friday, we are screening two documentary films: Character (Paul Heintz) and Omarska (Varun Sasindran). Orwellian dystopian figures in contemporary London and a shocking document—interviews with former prisoners of a Bosnian concentration camp erased from the face of the earth.

Omarska – Varun Sasindran 19’
Character – Paul Heintz 38’

28.03, from 8pm
Motto
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

@k1no1_cinema

jambú
un film de Claudius. (18′, 2025)
Saturday March 29, 7pm

Motto / K1no1
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

Join us with your kids for Noise and Trolls in the Mountains, a puppet performance in a suitcase based on an Icelandic fairy tale. This dark story unfolds in a white landscape filled with lakes, glaciers, and mysterious creatures, accompanied by a soundtrack of electronic music. We start at 3 PM.

Duration: 16 minutes

About the Puppeteer:  

Ana Nikolskaia is a puppeteer who collects random items from around the world to create her puppets and performances.

Motto Paris – 38 rue du Vertbois, 75003 Paris

This event is organized within the framework of the cinema club and the Film Association K1NO1.

21 March 8 PM – midnight – Motto Paris.

All dimension performance by the unfamous collective Après la Guerre: analogue 16mm sound installation.

Motto Paris – 38 rue du Vertbois  75003 Paris

This event is organized within the framework of the cinema club and the Film Association K1NO1.

Живая
Юля Андриянова

Tаван Cершывам
Виктория Салтар

Жар-птица
Лилиан Рубцова

Старое весло
cybermedusa

Cамоубитые роскомнадзором
Максим Евстропов

НЕСКОЛЬКО ПРОСТЫХ ПРАВИЛ ДЛЯ ПРИЕЗЖИХ ИНОПЛАНЕТЯН
Регина

Картофель фри
Таро Муратов

Камень
Арсений Агеев
(См. ШИРЕ)
Вероника

Непозма
Мария фокусия

Кавабанга
Анна Бородина

Табличка
Лиза Петрова

Rodina – самиздат свободной литературы. Мы хотим использовать свободу слова как инструмент под- держки благотворительных инициатив. Через актуальную ху- дожественную литературу мы осмысляем контекст Войны и рос- сийской цензуры, исследуем этические вопросы сложившейся реальности. Мы верим, что нам поможет деятельное знание. Rodina издается в Берлине и является независимой, част- ной инициативой, не принадлежащей никакому политическому течению или общественному объединению. Мы не преследуем коммерческие цели, все вырученные средства распределяются между благотворительными фондами. В первом выпуске мы собрали двенадцать текстов, затраги- вающих тему войны, прав человека, ЛГБТК+, феминизма, свобо- ды слова. Мы публикуем тексты в авторской редакции. Издание выходит в трёх обложках. Спасибо всем авторам, фотографам, друзьям и читателям за участие и поддержку. Rodina – наша мечта о родине без насилия.

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Art and life are directly connected, and yes, they complement each other. From observations of the quotidian, especially those in the public space, I extract insights through experimenting and researching which I then transform into artistic shape. What takes form in art does not only stimulate but significantly shape public discourse. I deliberately chose situations that appear uncomfortable at first. Dark corners, draughty gaps, and yes, discuss- ing the ‘in-between-ness’ of place and non- place is one of my concerns. Often through site-specific interventions, through performa- tive actions I detect the ‘lostness’ in such places. I always look for what’s present, there- fore work from the construction to display the inherent potential of such a place and also readily activate it in participative moments. To make as much as possible with as little as necessary – make visible, make perceptible – is the aim of my artistic practise.

Autor: Stefanie Klingemann

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Pictures of the moon, the ultimate topos in photography, have been given a new twist in Erik

In March 2022, here at Monday Press, we began receiving long emails from an anonymous account belonging to someone we barely knew. These letters were sent from deep underground—so deep that we weren’t even sure if it was safe to reply. They told an insider’s story of a world in the process of being erased: the anxiety, the fear, and the longing for something that was vanishing right before the author’s eyes. Over the course of a year, we received four letters and a series of photographs (taken by someone else). The author of the letters is now in a safe place but prefers to remain anonymous.

The book describes the Russian noise underground in the first year of the war. It’s a devastating read, raw, excessive, hyper-existential, intimate, edge of the world, anti-war, written from the inside.

with photographs by Wassily Bosch
Published in 2025

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www.stefanieklingemann.de
@stefanieklingemann
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http://un.titled.be
@unknown.artists.collective

@ Motto Paris
Saturday 01.03.2025,
from 6pm
/ 2021
Stefanie Klingemann and  travel and work together on and besides the road, in public space and in temporary arrangements. On their ways they develop site- and context-specific interventions in existing structures and found situations. The compositions they create are often poetic, silent, and usually of ephemeral duration. At Motto Paris they present a set of postcards of this practice. 

 presents his recently realised oral publication “Erzählungen (1982– )” along with a set of posters “Outlines & Scenarios” – an ongoing collection of scenarios and sketches being rolled out and talked about in various conversations.

Motto Paris
38 rue du Vertbois
75003 Paris

(image: Stefanie Klingemann &  at Villa Romana, Florence. 2021)ce )

ENTRE DOS AGUAS
Carlos León Zambrano

Sound Performance

Friday 14.02
8:30pm (sharp)

МОТТО
Skalitzerstr 68
BERLIN

The winter of our technomedieval era continues.

Join us this Saturday, February 8th at 7 PM as we delve into ontological narratives with Anya Tsirlina, Sid Yandovka, and their films. 

Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina (both born in Novosibirsk, USSR) are an artist-duo whose practice extends across many different media, predominantly moving images. Though only selected works of theirs are co-authored in a traditional sense, as both have distinct interests and aesthetics, they have collaborated (on and off) for over twenty years – ultimately creating a joint, entirely independent, “homemade” production approach for their films. Their working methods are not products of any  educational/professional institutions and their practice is not rooted in any state; it is immaterial and doesn’t benefit from any national/international funding, resources or structures. The artists prefer for their own histories and words to remain in the background – but it’s not essential to know the whys and hows of these works, since there’s an almost alchemical and mystical quality to them that supersedes their construction.

February 8  Motto  38 rue du Vertbois  75003 Paris

This post is related the upcoming film screening within the framework of the cinema club and Film Association K1NO1.