This programme presents three films all shot in Asia which address, in different ways, the communication between remotely distant worlds. The screening of Near Mandalay is a world premiere documenting a Buddhist pilgrimage to sites around the historic royal capital Mandalay. In Dow Song Duang the inhabitants of peasant villages in Thailand discuss several classic European paintings. Contemplated outside of the museum, in such an atypical context, entirely different aspects are illuminated than in the traditional European canon. The film The Exception and the Rule is nominated for the transmediale Award 2010 and part of the larger project The Museum of Non Participation. It explores under which conditions dialogues between Pakistan and Europe can be based on art (films).

Near Mandalay, NCS (Nyein Chan Su), mm 2009, 14min *
Dow Song Duang, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, th 2008, 17min
The Exception and the Rule, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, uk 2008, 37min *

*Director will attend screening and Q & A