It was a pleasure sharing the films with you! Thanks for the warm response and for coming last Saturday to the second screening program of OONA. We’ll be looking forward to sharing new films with you soon Huge thanks to the artists Henriette Heise Diego Marcon Viki Kühn Lorenzo Silvestri & to Gloria Biograf, to Carl Christian for taking pictures @carl_christian_perch & tusind tak til @snabslanten for at støtte os!

Amo Roma, scappo da Roma (2022) by Lorenzo Silvestri 03’07”” screens 21:00 Gloria Biograf, Copenhagen Saturday, 18th of April 19:30 - 22 In Lorenzo Silvestri’s film, Amo Roma, scappo da Roma (2022), four teenagers run tirelessly in front of Rome’s registry office on the Lungotevere of Pierleoni where the life of every citizen of Rome begins. Through an intimate research, Lorenzo reflects on the space he inhabits. As an artist who grew up in Rome, he weaves a fragile web of personal relationships and urban glimpses together, familiar, yet alienating. Tickets 40 DKK + free wine https://gloria.dk/film/oona/

Friedl (2011) by Viki Kühn 17’ 30” screens 21:00 Gloria Biograf, Copenhagen Saturday, 18th of April 19:30 - 22 In the final third of Friedl we see Viki Kühn reaching into the picture for a clock on the wall. She playfully moves the pendulum back and forth and then begins to move the hand of the same clock half an hour ahead. Friedl documents the home of a person who—as a result of illness—is simultaneously present and absent. Time is a measure, that has elapsed, before the film began.  The camera pan begins in the kitchen, where we are already confronted by the medical supplies; we go to the bathroom, from there into the bedroom, and from there again into the living rooms. We see objects, dishes, and medical gas bottles next to the bed; pillows, and furniture, photographs, books, and more photos and pieces of clothing. But the things, themselves, are inanimate and meaningless. Everything is clean, tidy, and inert. When living (according to Ernst Bloch) means leaving traces behind, then we find ourselves here in spaces in which all traces have been frozen in time. Life is holding its breath. The people and animals in the photographs are unknown to us and do not stir any memories. The dressing gown on the cupboard door is an empty mantle, useless, without the person it is meant to cover.  Viki Kühn herself is permanently present, not only behind the camera, as mirror image, and—together with the sick person and her mother—in the parallel soundtrack, but also mainly through her interventions. She lies with her shoes on in bed with the sick person, she intervenes, even manipulates. It is as though she wants to shake things up, to make them move, stir them to life. But every stone that she throws into this lake echoes. There is no narrative and no context other than what the camera shows us and what the sound offers our ears. And every clock follows its own rhythm, shows its own time. (Sylvia Szely) Translation: Lisa Rosenblatt Tickets 40 DKK + free wine

The Parents’ Room (2021) by Diego Marcon 09‘ 51“ screens 20:00 Gloria Biograf, Copenhagen Saturday, 18th of April 19:30 - 22 In a bedroom, perched on the edge of an unmade double bed, a man looks out of a window at the falling snow. Next to him lies a woman. A blackbird settles on the windowsill and strikes up a song which, little by little, comes to form a melody over which the man starts to sing. He tells of the murders he has just carried out: those of his son, his daughter, and his wife in their sleep, before describing his own suicide. One at a time, his son and daughter also appear and his wife then turns over in the bed, each of them singing a verse of their own. Once the story is over, the blackbird flies away and the man goes back to looking out of the window. © Diego Marcon. Courtesy the artist and Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Naples. Supported by Italian Council (2019). Tickets 40 DKK + free wine https://gloria.dk/film/oona/

Tissue Technology (2025) by Henriette Heise 8‘ 47“ screens 20:00 Gloria Biograf, Copenhagen Saturday, 18th of April 19:30 - 22 In films and on TV, there’s always a box of tissues in the therapist‘s office strategically placed between the therapist and the client, poised and ready. With its familiar silhouette, the tissue peeks out of the top of the box, proffered to wipe away tears and snot. The tissues solicit the feelings they would help ameliorate. And we know a breakthrough has occurred when the client reaches for the box: One tissue pulls the next one up in an endless stream, each surfacing seamlessly from the depths of the box.Tissue Technology reveals the mechanism behind this circuit. Like TV, cinema and other screen based media, the box of tissues is a technology for manipulating sentiment, and simultaneously providing clean-up. A swirling machinery, hidden in plain sight on our screens. Tickets 40 DKK + free wine https://gloria.dk/film/oona/

We’re excited to present the second screening program of OONA Gloria Biograf, Copenhagen Saturday, 18th of April 19:30 - 22 with films by Viki Kühn, Diego Marcon, Henriette Heise and Lorenzo Silvestri 19:30 Welcome & wine 20:00 Tissue Technology by Henriette Heise The Parents’ Room by Diego Marcon 21:00 Friedl by Viki Kühn Amo Roma, scappo da Roma by Lorenzo Silvestri Tickets 40 DKK + free wine https://gloria.dk/film/oona/ Supported by Snabslanten

PROGRAM 19:30 FOYER Reading by Ulrikke Bak 20:00 CINEMA Reading by Emma Bombail We Came Here to Swim by Shirin Sabahi Rest by Erdal Bilici 21:00 CINEMA When We Went Upstairs to Pull the Plug by Amin Motallebzadeh In Time by Tringa Gashi & Anita Shabanaj Performance by Ville Laurinkoski

We’re looking forward to screen Tringa Gashi & Andita Shabanaj’s film In Time on Saturday, as we are celebrating the launch of Materia no. 4 & the first screening program of Oona. In Time, 2025 video, sound, 10:20 min Set within a lush hotel room in Pristina, the film follows a protagonist, finding herself living in multiple layered temporalities. Through the balcony windows the city’s architectural landscape looms, with its uneven surface of past and present. The film explores how different currencies intersect, raising deeper questions about personal identity and the evolving concept of a nation. ————— Gloria Biograf, November 22, 21:00 Oona has for the occasion of the launch of Materia issue 4 curated a film program in relation to the new issue. Materia Issue 4 Launch 19:00-22:00 Screening program 20:00 & 21:00

To mark the release of Materia 4 and Oona’s first screening session, we’re happy to share When I Went Upstairs to Pull the Plug by Amin Motallebzadeh with you. When I Went Upstairs to Pull the Plug, 2019 5 min, 4:3, digital, stereo sound When I Went Upstairs to Pull the Plug explores questions of memory and displacement. In panning shots, the video traces a quiet attempt to recreate belonging through repetition. As a vacuum cleaner circles around, two apartments begin to merge — their stories blur and resurface when the plug is pulled. ————— Gloria Biograf, November 22, 21:00 Oona has for the occasion of the launch of Materia issue 4 curated a film program in relation to the new issue. Materia Issue 4 Launch 19:00-22:00 Screening program 20:00 & 21:00

For the release of Materia Issue 4 and our very first Oona screening session, we’ll be showing Rest by Erdal Bilici as part of the program. We’re looking forward to it! Rest, 2025, video, 10 min Based on a field trip that the artist had last year, Rest is a video piece that follows a story of a search for a cave as it collects fractured environments and narratives voiced by digitally generated characters. As it was commissioned by Kunsthal 44Møen for his solo representation, the work constructs spaces dense with speculative questions and fragments of memory as it oscillates through the postindustrial sites and early Christian iconography of the island of Møn to 3D-generated environments. What appears linear at first dissolves into textures of time: a montage of states of mind. The work invites us into these sensory thresholds, where perception slips between illusion and clarity, fiction and memory, simulation and embodied experience. ————— Gloria Biograf, November 22, 20:00 Oona has for the occasion of the launch of Materia issue 4 curated a film program in relation to the new issue. Materia Issue 4 Launch 19:00-22:00 Screening program 20:00 & 21:00

We’re happy to screen We Came Here to Swim by Shirin Sabahi as a part of our first screening program in Gloria We Came Here to Swim, 2012 Continuous 16mm film projection installation 16:9, B/W, no sound, German Sign Language with English asynchronous teleprompting translation, 4 min A film director recounts her endeavors at finishing her film against all odds. Told in front of her former film set, her story becomes progressively chaotic. Immersed in her vision, she gradually lost the ability to speak. Nonetheless she bonded with her cameraman, the only person she could still communicate with without need for words. Although vision and passion come together in this process of extra sensory communication, it is not revealed whether the film itself–if ever completed–was legible to others. —————— Gloria Biograf, November 22, 20:00 Oona has for the occasion of the launch of Materia issue 4 curated a film program in relation to the new issue. Materia Issue 4 Launch 19:00-22:00 Screening program 20:00 & 21:00

November 22nd 19:00 - 22:00 Rådhuspladsen 59, 1550 Copenhagen Gloria Biograf On November 22nd in Gloria Biograf, the fourth issue of the magazine MATERIA will be launched in collaboration with Oona—a new screening series dedicated to curated programmes of film and video art. Oona has for the occasion of the launch curated a film programme in relation to the coming issue featuring works by Shirin Sabahi, Tringa Gashi, Andita Shabanaj, Erdal Bilici and Amin Motallebzadeh. In addition to the screenings, the evening will include readings, a performance by Ville Laurinkoski and the possibility of purchasing the new issue. This issue includes work of Ulrikke Bak, Erdal Bilici, Emma Bombail, Courtney Bush, Victoria Chang, Tringa Gashi, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Almut Hilf, Olga Hohmann, Ville Laurinkoski, Hyein Min, Amin Motallebzadeh, Nina Nadig, Klara Paulin-Rosell, Shirin Sabahi and Rita Sammer. @shirinsabahi @tringity @erdal_bilici @aminmotalleb @jackofhearts_9 @paris_bedbug @anita_grape_resurrection @fattery12 @tomhardwickallan @almut_hilf @olgahohoh @villelaurinkoski @hyeyny @champ_pain @klarastgertrud @rita.sammer