Curated by Cecilia Ermini, this selection of 9 experimental short films, poised between imagination and materiality, interrogates not only the geographical configurations that give freshwater its form, but also its function as a singular aquatic mirror.

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At Filmhuis Cavia we are always happy when we can bring the magic of 16mm back to our cinema. This time we are even more excited, as we will be hosting New York-based artist and filmmaker Ryan Marino with his suitcase full of 16mm prints! Having coupled up with wysiwyg in Den Haag to bring Ryan over the Atlantic, we will be screening a retrospective of his work carefully curated by our partners of wysiwyg. The author will be present in the cinema to play his own prints. 

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Maria Lang, along with Ute Aurand, belonged to a group of female students at the Berlin Film and Television Academy who shaped a new experimental film language in the 1980s. During this time, she created her most important films, Familiengruft – ein Liebesgedicht an meine Mutter (1982) and Zärtlichkeiten (1985), which explored lesbian life in Berlin. With the question «Who were the first women to make films in Germany?», Aurand and Lang founded the Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend at the Kino Arsenal.