The House is Black

19 June, 2026 — 16:00–20:00
✦ Khaneh Siah Ast [The House Is Black], 22’, 1962
✦ Capernaum, 126’, 2019

20 June, 2026 — 12:00–16:00
✦ Born in Flames, 90’, 1983
✦ Children of Fire, 50’, 2001

Les Complices* gathers under the theme BURNT. Fire surrounds us as both material reality and symbolic condition. It ignites, transforms, warms, and illuminates. It also exhausts, scars, and consumes. Fire leaves traces and residue. What happens after something burns?

✦ Reading: Etel Adnan, The Arab Apocalypse, 1989.

The Third Cinema Club is a series of screenings and collective readings by Les Complices* that reimagines the radical legacy of “the third”—drawing from Third Cinema, Third Place theory, and Third Worldism. Conceived as a feminist and diasporic space of study, witnessing, and imagination, the series invites the audience to watch and read together, creating moments of shared reflection and conversation that move fluidly between film and text. By bringing people together outside both institutional and domestic settings, The Third Cinema Club cultivates practices of solidarity, critical thought, and collective world-making.

✦ 19–20 June 2026
✦ Location: Messe Basel, Hall 1.1, Entrance Isteinerstrasse, Gate 107, 4058 Basel.