KURZE SCHATTEN     –    de 2013, 58 min., original with English subtitles, digital

Hamburg filmmaker Gerd Roscher follows in the footsteps of his ancestor, the explorer Albrecht Roscher, who traveled to East Africa in 1858 and is considered the “discoverer” of Dar es Salaam in the colonial narrative. Using letters, archive material and his impressions, he traces his journey and embarks on a new exploration.

Guest: Gerd Roscher

A joint film program by ajabu ajabu, an artists’ collective from Dar es Salaam, and B-Movie.

ajabu ajabu and the B-Movie intuitively came together through visual language. The arthouse cinema in St. Pauli and the gallery with film studio in Dar es Salaam present a jointly curated film program dedicated to the different languages we use in exchange: Swahili, English and German, but also artistic languages such as film, music, theater or poetry – as well as our shared history and colonial entanglements. Let’s look forward to two film evenings under the motto “Historia ya Pamoja – Lugha ya Pamoja / Shared History – Shared Language”.