“… I’m sitting at home in Berlin and go on writing.
I’m wearing a pink Hello Kitty t-shirt I bought in Japan with white sunglasses.
Even when I just write to myself it’s clear to me
that I want some-one to read it, and I want him to laugh or cry.
No one has ever cried from something I wrote
except for some nut I met ten years ago in art school.
She told me she cried from some poems I wrote,
it was the first time I thought she’s mad.
I think I’ll pass the coming days unconscious.”

—Keren Cytter, Whitye Diaries, 2011

From March 5th to 13th, The Blank at BFM – Bergamo Film Meeting will be screening Keren Cytter’s films including Game, Experimental Film, Rose Garden, Corrections, Siren, and Les ruissellements du diable in the exhibition Retrospettiva – Keren Cytter. Keren Cytter’s films destroy modern principles of cinema, searching for a balance between performance and theater. The artist plays with real notions and fiction, involving non-professional actors and cameramen. Her filmic representation adds a surrealist touch to existential concerns such as love, hatred and the human condition giving both a dark and comic reflection of the contemporary society.

Keren Cytter – “A Retrospective”
Bergamo, 5 – 13 March 2016 | Piazza Libertà Auditorium, San Marco Theatre
In collaboration with Raffaella Cortese Gallery (Milan)

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Image: Keren Cytter, Siren (video still), 2014. Courtesy of Galleria Raffaella Cortese (Milan); Galerie Nagel Draxler (Berlin) and the artist.