Armenia City in the Sky: Doppelgängers3

Through role-play, magic, encounters with doppelgängers and meetings with an extensive range of scientists, visionaries and cultural inventors, Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian’s documentary offers an experimental vision and template for a future diaspora beyond Earth. Doppelgängers3 draws on the experience of diasporas to challenge the commercialisation of the moon and imagine pluralistic, queer and ecofeminist futures. Doppelgängers3 is designer and artist Ben Hayoun-Stépanian’s fifth feature documentary and takes to a new level their work to integrate cultural consideration, pluralistic and queer thinking in space exploration. Shot in Algeria, Armenia, USA, and Spain, Doppelgängers3 is a visual and sonic experience with music by Pussy Riot, Colin Self, Mirrored Fatality, and Asmodessa. It was made with the support of the BFI Doc Society Fund, awarding National Lottery funding. A Grant for This Film Was Generously Provided by the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program with support from Sandbox Films. Followed by an in-person Q&A session hosted by curator and AFSL co-founder Kira Adibekov. The event is a continuation of a series of cross-disciplinary screenings and events with creatives invited to talk about their audiovisual experiments. Jukebox Film Club offers a year-round opportunity to appreciate a vibrant selection of non-mainstream, unclassifiable works of various genres that are missing from the standard cinema circuit. Preceding the screening, join us for a pop-up arts & crafts fair with creatives.