BSA Film Friday: 05.19.23 | Brooklyn Street Art

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. “1 Kilo – 3 Euros” by Ani Mrelashvili

2. Shahzia Sikander: Melting Boundaries

3. Heather Benjamin – “Mother All I Did Was Want To Kill But Just Look At What I Broke”

BSA Special Feature: “1 Kilo – 3 Euros” by Ani Mrelashvili

Today’s edition of BSA Film Friday trains the spotlight on three women. Two of them are artists talking about their work and one of them is an entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is a woman who wears many hats at once and keeps an immigrant community bonded. Immigration, immigrants, and migration are always on the news. Here in the USA, the big topic is the southern border with Mexico and the influx of immigrants, mostly from Central America, but also from Colombia and Venezuela as well as the regular number of Mexican Nationals who strive for a better future in a foreign land. In the film, Maka runs a parcel shop in Berlin that caters to a tight community of immigrants from Georgia, the country in the Caucasus region in Europe that was invaded and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1922 but re-gained independence in 1991 riding in the success of the 1980’s Independence Movement. This film is a reminder of the humanity of immigrants and their love for those they left behind. Maka’s big heart and affable disposition facilitate the bond that all these people have in common.

1 Kilo – 3 Euros by Ani Mrelashvili

Shahzia Sikander: Melting Boundaries / Art21 “Extended Play” by Andrea Chung.

For her exhibition at Bim Bam Gallery in Paris. The exhibition closes tomorrow, Saturday, May 20. Hurry!

Bim Bam Gallery
23 rue Béranger 75003 Paris

Heather Benjamin – “Mother All I Did Was Want To Kill But Just Look At What I Broke”