Sunny Lane (Sonnenallee), 2011
Karim Aïnouz
Sunny Lane (Sonnenallee), 2011
Super 8 to digital, colour
12 minutes
Film still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Overview
Sunny Lane is Sonnenallee in German, a famous street in the south west of Berlin, home to a large number of Arab immigrants. When the Berlin Wall was still dividing the city, a young man was shot while trying to cross to West Berlin near a checkpoint on Sonnenallee. He was the last fugitive to be shot dead before the fall of the Wall. Sunny Lane is an essay on border crossing and exile. It is a film about an imaginary place – a road filled with snow, a horizon exploding with rain, the blinking lights of a nocturnal fairground.
April 2011
This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 10
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Credits
Written and directed by Karim Aïnouz
Edited by Isabela Monteiro de Castro
Cinematography: Karim Aïnouz
Sound: Jon Kadocsa
Production: DETAiL
Artwork Images
Sunny Lane (Sonnenallee)
Karim Aïnouz
2011
Super 8 to digital, colour
12 minutes
Film Still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Sunny Lane (Sonnenallee)
Karim Aïnouz
2011
Super 8 to digital, colour
12 minutes
Film Still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
Sunny Lane (Sonnenallee)
Karim Aïnouz
2011
Super 8 to digital, colour
12 minutes
Film Still
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation
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Aïnouz, Karim
Karim Aïnouz is a Brazilian-Algerian filmmaker and visual artist. He holds a degree in Architecture from the University of Brasilia and in Cinema Studies from New York University.
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