Admission $10; donations welcome
February 9, 2023, 7pm
Brooklyn, NY 11205
USA
Join us at e-flux Screening Room for a benefit screening of Pelin Tan & Anton Vidokle's Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep (2022).
Please buy tickets or donate here. All proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go toward disaster relief in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria, where a series of earthquakes on February 6 have caused the collapse of hundreds of buildings in dozens of cities, resulting in a death toll that has exceeded 19,000 and continues to rise, along with tens of thousands injured.
Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep
Kurdish and Turkish with English subtitles, 47:12 minutes, 2022
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest literary work discovered to date. Composed in Mesopotamia more than five thousand years ago, it describes the journey of Gilgamesh, the ruler of one of the first historical metropolises: Uruk. Following the death of Enkidu—the best and closest friend—Gilgamesh embarks on a quest to find immortality, so as to avoid meeting the same fate. Part god and part human, Gilgamesh encounters a varied cast of personages, ranging from the Goddess Ishtar and Scorpion people, to Utnapishtim, who, like Noah, saved humanity from the Great Flood by building an arc. Filmed on the banks of the Tigris River, near the ancient cities of Mardin, Hasankeyf, and Dara, the film takes us on a journey through time and space. Inspired by Sumerian cosmology as well as the philosophy of Russian cosmism, and accompanied by an original score by Alva Noto, Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep is a meditation on questions of living, death, friendship, love, and immortality. This film is in Kurdish and Turkish, and features an all-woman cast of actors from the Amed Theater in Diyarbakır.
Film by: Anton Vidokle and Pelin Tan
Featuring: Elvan Koçer, Berfin Emektar, Dijle Güneş Yavuz, Şahperi Alphan Bayhan, Rugeş Kırıcı, Zelal Bakır Turan
Cinematography: Ayman Nahle
Original score by: Alva Noto
Editing: Meggie Schneider
Production management: Yelta Köm
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.
Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.