Alisa Berger's Three Borders Screening

What survives displacement and what vanishes with it? On Saturday, March 28 at 4pm, we are screening Alisa Berger's Three Borders, a film essay that traces her family lineages across three generations—Korean and Ukrainian-Jewish—amidst deportations, wars, and erasures. Composed from the artist's family archives, text, and found images, Berger transposes the crossings over of physical, geographic borders into those of the more affective and intangible nature like love and death. Through the artist's voice, Three Borders narrates a reckoning with the inherited memories that exceed the scale of one's lifetime.

The screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Berger.

The screening is organized in conjunction with the exhibition To time, to distance curated by Tamara Khasanova and Junho Peter Yoon on view at AHL Foundation from March 26 through April 25, 2026.

About the artist:

Alisa Berger was born in 1987 in Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, and raised in Lviv, Ukraine and later Essen, Germany. She studied at KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Bogotá and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. She was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize and the Deutsche Filmakademie FIRST STEPS Award. In 2023 she received the Studio Collector Prize at Jeu de Paume. Her work has been shown at institutions such as Eye Filmmuseum, Jeu de Paume, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Centre-Wallonie-Bruxelles Paris, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, and Kindl Berlin, as well as at film festivals including Berlinale, IDFA, CPH:DOX, and Hot Docs, among others. From 2018 to 2022, she lived in Tokyo and studied Butoh performance.

Sliding Scale $5-17. Proceeds will go towards keeping the studio open and future public programming.

Light refreshments will be provided.

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