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2:00pm – 4:00pm
Sibylle Dahrendorf – Crackle of Time: Christoph Schlingensief and His Opera Village in Burkina Faso (Germany/Burkina Faso, 2012)
106 minutes | Segal Theatre (70 seats)
German with English subtitles

Christoph Schlingensief, the German film, theatre, and opera director, had a vision for an opera village in Africa. Despite his battle with cancer, he made frequent trips to Burkina Faso–such was his devotion and conviction. Crackle of Time tells the story of his impossible project: to build an opera village in Burkina Faso, a space which would combine art and life, with a school, theatre, hospital, living quarters, a football field, and a lunchroom. Schlingensief wanted to include everything one needs to live and survive in one place. Everything changed when Christoph Schlingensief died in August 2010.From the initial location search in May 2009 and the groundbreaking in February 2010 to the emergence of the school, the documentary takes us up close to the German artist, Christoph Schlingensief, and his architect, Diébédo Francis Kéré, who originally comes from Burkina Faso. The documentary gets behind the vision of the ‘opera village’ and witnesses its struggles and hurdles. In October 2011, the school celebrated its opening.

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Sibylle Dahrendorf (b. 1964, Cologne) has been living in Berlin since 1992 and works as an author, film director, and freelancer for several TV broadcasting stations, realizing reports, features and documentaries (shooting in Germany, Bosnia, Columbia, Mexico, Argentina, Israel and Africa). Since 1998, Dahrendorf worked with Christoph Schlingensief and accompanied him and his work for many TV features. Crackle of Time was her first documentary for the cinema.