Visit our festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Just like in the past years, Kunsthal Charlottenborg will once again constitute the heart of the festival. Here, you can drop by daily to visit cinemas, our VR exhibition INTER:ACTIVE, as well as the Thao Nguyen Phan exhibition Reincarnations of Shadows, which is the artist's first major solo exhibition in Scandinavia, running from March 13th to August 11th.
Welcome to CPH:DOX’s festival center at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Every day during the festival, we open the doors at 10:00 AM to two festival cinemas, exhibitions, events, and parties. You can also eat and drink at Apollo Bar, which is open every day from 10:00 AM (except for Monday), and at Apollo Kantine, which is open daily from 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Also, visit our own DOX:BAR, which is open every day from the first to the last event.
At Charlottenborg, you’ll find our very own cinema – SOCIAL:CINEMA. Because at festivals like CPH:DOX, it’s not always easy to get to, from, and around if you’re, for example, a wheelchair user, we’ve built a new, temporary cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. It is inspired by the principles of universal design and aims to be more inclusive for guests with mobility impairments.
The cinema, designed by the studio Aspekt Office and supported by the Bevica Foundation’s grant fund, is called SOCIAL:CINEMA and focuses on the body, inclusivity, and sustainability. Scaffold constructions, specially designed furniture, and wheelchair-friendly tables and bars provide access to a more diverse and varied audience.
Poet and disability activist Caspar Eric, who opens SOCIAL:CINEMA on March 16th with a new and visual version of the manifesto ‘Sorry we’re here’, which is a collective outcry from a wide range of people with disabilities and their relatives.
During CPH:DOX, Kunsthal Charlottenborg also opens the Thao Nguyen Phan exhibition ‘Reincarnations of Shadows’. In this first solo exhibition on Scandinavian soil, Phan delves into pressing questions about her homeland’s history in relation to more contemporary issues of environment, colonialism, and historiography.
Moreover, we open the doors to a new edition of our INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition, which is based on the interplay between creativity and technology. Through various media such as games, interactive installations, video art, textiles, and AI, a number of artists explore changes in how we relate to our physical self and investigate how we break the boundaries of our imagined limitations. The INTER:ACTIVE Exhibition is curated by Mark Atkin.
16:45
The Iraqi farmer who kept Saddam Hussin hidden from 150,000 American soldiers in a hole in his garden tells his incredible story in his own words over the nine months he involuntarily hosted the dethroned dictator.
18:30
The Stimming Pool
The Neurocultures Collective, Benjamin Brown, Georgia Bradburn, Sam Chown-Ahern, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker & Steven Eastwood / United Kingdom / 2024 / World Premiere / 70 min
+ Event: 'Relaxed screening' with the neurodivergent film collective
At this special screening, you will not only meet the five directors of the neurodivergent collective behind 'The Stimming Pool' along with their co-director Steven Eastwood. You can also experience the screening as a 'relaxed screening' that takes into account all neurodivergent guests. There will be a little more light, a little lower volume - and everyone is welcome to move freely during the screening or sneak in and out of the theater as needed.
Created by a collective of neurodivergent filmmakers in an attempt to provide an alternative and artistic take on what it's like to live with neurodivergence in a chaotic world not made for those who are different.
19:00
Entropy + Sunspot + The Cloud People
Inuk Jørgensen, David Blandy, Iulian Furtuna, Iulian Furtuna & Marius Lena / Greenland, United Kingdom, France & Barbados / 72 min
Three short and fascinating films about science and celestial bodies.
20:30
While the Green Grass Grows
Peter Mettler / Switzerland & Canada / 2023 / 166 min
Q&A: Unfortunately director Peter Mettler has had to cancel his visit
A beautiful and enriching experience from one of the most original voices in documentary filmmaking, who has made his most personal film to date without lowering the philosophical altitude.
21:00
Burning Out
Saskia Gubbels / Netherlands / 2023 / International Premiere / 85 min
Dad humour is declared a thing of the past at a fire station in Amsterdam, where diversity must be promoted and employees must learn to interact with each other anew. A witty and human film about finding yourself in a time of cultural upheaval where fires still need to be put out.
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