Screening: Applied Theories of Expanding Mind, Oct. 20 2011 @ National Theatre

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Date: October 20, 2011
Venue: Kenya National Theatre
Location: Harry Thuku Road, Opposite Norfolk Hotel
Time: 7-9pm

Applied Theories of Expanding Minds

Multi channel video installation, short film HDV 2009-2011

In a transforming Kenya, a group of people has created a new tribe. Applied Theories of Expanding Minds shows some of them engaged in ritual actions with the purpose to change their community.

The film was shot in Kenya in 2009 and emerge from the artistic research project You Look Like Milk, that took its starting point in a post-colonial discourse in which we examine how we create images of the Other.
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Movie screening: Viva Riva, from Oct. 7 2011 @ Silverbird Cinemas Village Market

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In Kinshasa, every day is a struggle and every night is a party. In a city where everything is for sale, Riva has something everyone wants.

In the film Viva Riva, the lead character is a small-time operator who has just returned home to the Democratic Republic of Congo with a truckload of much sought after petrol, stolen from an Angolan crime lord.

With his pockets full of cash, Riva hits the town and falls in love with a local gangster’s girlfriend.

The plot thickens when his erstwhile accomplices arrive hot on his heels in pursuit of the stolen cache.

read the interview with Viva Vida! director Djo Munga
via this is Africa

The Official Site for ‘Viva Riva!’