With excitement we present the second edition of the ongoing film series When Rain Clouds Gather with the artist and filmmaker Éric Baudelaire.
From 15-27 October 2024, the two films The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masai Adachi, and 27 Years without Images (2011) and When There Is No More Music to Write, and Other Roman Stories (2022) will be shown alternately during the regular opening hours of the Kunsthalle Bern in the main hall of the institution’s first floor. Éric Baudelaire's films explore the ways in which personal narratives of artists intersect with larger historical contexts. By examining the roles of identity, memory, and landscape, Baudelaire offers profound insights into the complex relationship between art and politics. An artist talk on the 25th of October at 9 p.m. with Éric Baudelaire and iLiana Fokianaki offers insights into the research process of the filmography of Beaudelaire and the chance to reflect on these two films.

The film screening program When Rain Clouds Gather discusses artistic imaginaries for possible futures, contemplating social and environmental justice. The series presents an overview of artistic practices that address the different imaginaries and responses that shape how we envision a climatic and more just future. Inspired by the homonymous novel of Bessie Head, the novel is a tale of hope amidst despair, inspiring us to think of possible futures with care and determination, against the damning reality of climate catastrophe.