Screening and Q&A · Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day? بشتقلك ساعات

At Hošek Contemporary (Map)

Admission: 5-10 €
Pay at the door but register in advance.

Doors Open: 19:00 Start: 19:30

Following our 27th Conference Transitioning: Art, Politics & Technologies of Gender Change, we invite you to join us for a summer screening of Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day? | بشتقلك ساعات hosted by Hosek Contemporary and facilitated by Disruption Network Lab and Sirens Sightings. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mohammad Shawky Hassan.                                 

Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?  EG/LB/DE(66 min, Arabic / English, with English / Arabic subtitles)  

“Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day?” is a contemporary queer musical taking Arab folktales as its formal reference, and Egyptian pop music as its primary sonic material. It is based on the filmmaker's personal love diary and told in the form of a “One Thousand and One Nights” tale, where stories playfully unfold through conversations between Shahrazad, a narrator who never comes into view and ghosts of former lovers.

Sirens Sightings consists of 12 hybrid events hosted by Marum at Hosek Contemporary, floating through moving image, sound, dance and rave mythologies.   

Mohammad Shawky Hassan (EG/DE)                  

Mohammad Shawky Hassan is an Egyptian filmmaker and video artist living and working in Berlin since January 2019. His last film And on a Different Note premiered at the Berlinale - Forum Expanded, and was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York as part of its permanent collection.   

Marum (DE)

Marum is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, DJ and writer based in Berlin. Their practice and research interweave sound, queer rave culture and its implication on social and urban politics, collective care practices and feminist hacktivism.

Hošek Contemporary is located at MS HEIMATLAND close to Fischerinsel 3, 10 179 Berlin-Mitte (Map)