<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Friends:<div>I’m excited to invite you to a screening of <b>Former East/Former West. </b>It’s special for me to show the film in Berlin, where it was filmed several decades ago. Do come if you’re curious and spread the word to anyone who might be interested. It would be great to see you there.</div><div>Best,</div><div>Shelly</div><div><br></div><div><b><font size="2">Former East/Former West</font></b></div><div><font size="2">1994/62:00, in German with English subtitles</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><b><font size="2">Monday July 31st, 7pm*</font></b></div><div><b><font size="2">Wednesday August 16th, 7pm*</font></b></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><b><a href="https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/">Lichtblick Kino</a> </b>(click for info/tickets)</font></div><div><font size="2">Kastanienallee 77</font></div><div><font size="2">Berlin</font></div><div><br></div><div>*Followed by a discussion moderated by author and curator Michael Freerix, with special guest Annette Maechtel, who lived this 2-year+ adventure with me.</div><div><br></div><div><img alt="6wish better socbig sharp copy.jpeg" src="cid:D811767D-B19C-4DF4-8A7E-2C34F4B63908"></div><div><br></div><div><div>Made up of hundreds of street interviews done in Berlin two years after the Reunification, <b>Former East/Former West</b> is a vital, surprisingly open, and at times disturbing documentary about what it means to be German at this particular moment in history. For forty-five years, residents of this divided city lived radically different lives, both in terms of ideology and everyday experience. Silver questions the very notion of a shared language, focusing on changing definitions of words for political and economic systems - democracy, freedom, capitalism, socialism - as well as words used to describe nations and identity - nationality, Germany, history, foreigners, home. </div><div><br></div><div>Watching the interviewees grapple with their own personal definitions of these ideologically loaded terms, viewers can't help but ask these same questions to themselves. In this way, Silver's project takes on a much larger scope, raising key questions facing most countries today - what makes up a nation or a national identity; where do boundaries begin and end, who belongs within these boundaries and who does not.</div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://shellysilver.com/former-eastformer-west">http://shellysilver.com/former-eastformer-west</a></div><div><br></div><div>apologies for crosslistings.</div><div><div style="display: block;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>