A short trip to the countryside

After lots of work and our sucessfull screening in Krakow, we took a day of and went out to a small nice valley near Krakow. There we had a nice break and after party kater hang out.
Beside this we saw this nice castle and had a very good poland barbecue in the vallley....

Moviemiento Screening 22nd July in Krakow

The Screening in Krakow: To begin with the location - place Szeroka, directly in front of the Old Jewish synagogue. Now an museum dedicated to the Jewish history of Krakow with its Jewish quarter Kazimierz. Krakow once was as a Jewish capital in eastern Europe, now with some one two hundred Jew inhabitants... .

Besides this very meaningful setting, this kind of location with its old buildings gave us a wonderful and peaceful ambient. As the nearly full moon began to rise next to the old synagogue and over our screen, a crowd of around 300 obviously happy people was sitting absorbed in front of the screen, our audience were not the only happy people that very moment, just alike were us, because coming to that point wasn't an easy thing to do.

Not unlike our premiere in Berlin the screening in Krakow developed to a mogul piste of emotions. This time Weather was with us, against the forecast the evening was really nice and clear, no harm from this direction. But in the instance as the screening was about to begin, as 200 curious people were watching our last preparations, we got a smoke signal that something was about to go wrong. No Indian attack, no, far to far eastern - but electricity of the old synagogue could obviously be seen as a museums exhibit as well. Later research brought to light that electricity was installed in the early 50's - and some electronic devices of ours didn't seem to appreciate a museum visit. The effect besides a burning adapter in our bar was that our DVD-Player seemed to be transformed into a tiny fog machine. Now we had emergency. First act to do was unplugging all electronics, letting us be confronted next moment with an obviously very unhappy crowd of spectators...
We decided not to trust anymore in the old electric of the museum, but to press our own fresh electricity. This evening we had seen stones jumping on our hearts and we have seen them falling of again, as the program started we saw exited faces. In the break we had refuel the generator, which meant total darkness on the screen and at our lovely bar (which had some special features under the bar desk in regard to the strong interest to "strong" Orange Juice and Red Bull). Maybe half of the audience used the moments of lacking light to disappear without being recognized - the remaining half was the one that made us very happy. Many many people gave us words of confidence, subscribed to the newsletter, wanted to help us clean up the place and even one filmmaker came to us to ask, if we couldn't show one of his peaces.

After our screening we had a party prepaired. Dj Sichboy and Crack.off.sky on trumpet played first in our screening break and then on the after screening party. But it it was the shortest moviemiento party ever and we are not really proud of this party.

Tour Berlin-Krakow

After having recovered from stress as well as from the success of the once again over­whelming Berlin premiere, the moviemiento mobile was made ready for its long journey around the continent, first heading eastwards.

A small fraction of the team took off in time with the Feierabend rush hour on Tuesday 19.07 evening. The trip to Krakow, our first road stop on this years tour, displaced us right into a kind of surrealistic road movie as the more eastwards we were getting and the darker the night our bus seemed to be the only moving object on the devastated, rotten highways in the middest of the dark forest.

Finally we drove trough the whole night and arrived in the city of Krakow in the very early morning hours. After taking just a little rest the organizational work started over again. First we were curious to meet our lovely local helping hand, Ula Kahul, who we had only known per email contact so far. Once she became integrated in the team and took over the lead of the organization process, as she was well familiar how things worked our in Krakow.

Next two days we spent running around the nice little town of Krakow, spending most of our time in the hip Jewish quarter of Kazimierz where our screening would be held. We went into guerrilla-promoting the screening in the moviemiento way – putting up posters and postcards on every possible spot and invited the people on street personally.

(Some impressions from Krakow ....)

Most people seemed to be really interested.
Everything worked fine, just the weather was grey and rainy before our screening again. But we were all full of hope and ready for another nice weather suprise.

( Ula&Jean, just a street and our screening place in front of the old synagoge, and Ula again ....)