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hello i’m ryan ferguson i’m the curator

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of film at the art gallery of hamilton

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and i wanted to say a special thank you

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to everyone

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who watched our april films i hope you

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enjoyed them all

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and in fact you made shiva baby our best

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attended film so far in the

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just over a year we’ve been running the

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online film series so thanks again

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uh and i hope you’re excited for our

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films that we have coming up in may

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i’m here to talk about a couple of those

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right now the first

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berlin alexander platts is an adaptation

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of a

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famous weimar era novel out of germany

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um originally released in 1929

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it has been adapted a few times over the

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years most notably

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in 1980 rayner werner

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fassbender made a 15 and a half hour tv

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series out of the novel

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um which has been quite widely seen but

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this this

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uh adaptation takes place in current day

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berlin

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as a bit of a contemporary feel to the

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primary story in the novel

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recasts the main protagonist as an

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undocumented

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african refugee who lands in berlin

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after a very very difficult journey

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and vows to be a good man but he soon

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realizes how difficult

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it is to be righteous while living

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undocumented in germany

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the papers without nationality and

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without a work permit

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um the film is beautifully shot there’s

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this nice contemporary neon

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sheen to it berlin looks fabulous

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and the performances are top notch so a

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really

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great film that originally premiered at

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the 2020 berlin film festival so this is

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one of the first times

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uh you’ll be able to see this film in

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cannabis so very exciting

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and the other film that i’m going to

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talk about briefly here today

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is one i’m really excited to be sharing

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it’s a documentary

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it’s called museum town it’s a

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documentary about mass moca

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if you’re not familiar with mass moca it

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is the largest contemporary art museum

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in the world

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um and it took this film takes place

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over the last

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25 years going even a little bit further

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back into the history of

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of the town um back to the genesis of

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the idea of this museum

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how it was being brought in as an

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idea to reinvigorate a town a factory

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that was

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that had been vacated and the town was

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dying around it

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it’s a really amazing story about how

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you know

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art can uh have the power to transform

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uh a city uh and the identity of a city

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and

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obviously uh in hamilton that’s that’s

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quite a relevant story so

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i hope i hope everyone enjoys that and

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if you

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wanted to talk about these films don’t

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forget we have our monthly film club

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takes place the last um wednesday of

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every month

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you can register for that on our website

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and we get together with a bunch of

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filmmakers very casual and just

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discussed this month’s films

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so uh like to see you there and i’ll be

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back in a couple weeks to talk about our

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other film for may

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about endlessness

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