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For everyone trying to escape from the heat, this screening offers a great opportunity to share a trip to the cool waters of the Bering Sea: CHAMISSO'S SHADOW A JOURNEY TO THE BERING SEA IN THREE CHAPTERS BY ULRIKE OTTINGER Friday 20 - Sunday 22nd July 2018 The Regent Street Cinema, 307 Regent Street Chamisso’s Shadow (2016), German avant-garde director Ulrike Ottinger’s filmic journey to the lands and people of the Bering Strait region will receive its UK premiere at the Regent Street Cinema over the weekend of Friday 20 – Sunday 22 July 2018. Divided into three chapters, the twelve-hour long film will be shown over three consecutive days and be complemented by introductions from the curator and lecturer Helen de Witt and Jean McNeill, writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey (2005-6). Inspired by the sea expeditions and writings of 18th and 19th century explorers and their accompanying naturalists, particularly Adelbert von Chamisso, this epic travelogue combines grand cinematography, detailed observations and a many-voiced commentary to create a unique ethnographically inflected documentary essay on the interplay of culture, politics and nature in this remote northern region between the Eurasian and American continents. Screening Schedule Fri, 20.07.2018, 7:00 PM Chapter 1 –Alaska and the Aleutian Islands (193 min) - Introduced by Helen de Witt - https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/chamissos-shadow-1-alaska-and-the-aleutian-islands/ Sat, 21.07.2018, 2:15 PM Chapter 2 –Part 1: Chukotka (192 min) https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/chamissos-shadow-2-1-chukotka/ & 7:00 PM – Part 2: Chukotka and Wrangel Island (156 min) https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/chamissos-shadow-2-2-chukotka-and-wrangel-island/ Sun, 22.07.2018 2:00 PM Chapter 3 – Kamtchatka and Bering Island (177 min) - Introduced by Jean McNeil - https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/chamissos-shadow-3-kamtchatka-and-bering-island/ The Regent Street Cinema, 307 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW, www.regentstreetcinema.com T 020 7911 5050 Call us (12pm – 10pm) Tickets are £7 per screening, and will automatically discount to £20 total if all four are purchased together. Organised by the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI), The Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at Westminster University, the Goethe-Institut London and LUX with support from Open City Documentary Film Festival and in association with the German Screen Studies Network. With special thanks to Ulrike Ottinger Film Production and The Regent Street Cinema. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the GERMAN-STUDIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=GERMAN-STUDIES&A=1