Regarding Resistance
Often only what is visible and what is manifested itself in an images is believed. Visibility is never given, but is always produced in conjunction with knowledge and power structures. The five films describe this relationship through different aesthetic and political strategies and deal with the struggles and the knowledge of their black protagonists. The positions of the filmmakers produce a resistant gaze, a counter-narrative to the colonial, western narrative.
Unearthing. In Conversation
UNEARTHING. IN CONVERSATION deals with the violent history of the photographic work of Paul Schebesta, an Austrian ethnologist and missionary, who among other things made ‘research’ in the former Belgian Congo, the reverberation of colonial violence in the (Austrian) present, as well as the negotiation of artistic representation strategies in dealing with ethnological materials. ‘Unearthing’ refers to a process of bringing up. ‘In Conversation’ suggests that the emphasis is not thought of as a solitary practice, but as a dialogical practice.
- Österreich
- 00:14:40
- Director: Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski
- Photography: Sunanda Mesquita
- Editing: Sunanda Mesquita, Nick Prokesch
- Sound: Liesa Kovacs
- Languages: en
- Year: 2017
- Golden Key
- World Premiere
Why Are You Angry
Taking its title ‘Why Are You Angry?’ from one of Gauguin’s late paintings, Nashashibiand Skaer follow in the painter’s footsteps to Tahiti to make contemporary images of Women. The film opens fundamental questions about representations of women and the power of myth.
- Großbritannien, Französisch-Polynesien
- 00:18:00
- Director: Rosalind Nashashibi, Lucy Skaer
- Year: 2017
House of Women
In 1946 auditions were held for the character of the silent dancing girl Kanchi in Black Narcissus and in 1947 the coveted role finally went to seventeen-year-old white Jean Simmons. To fulfil the role, the white English actress had to wear dark make-up and a jewel in her nose to become the exotic temptress. Drawing on tension between construction and illusion, HOUSE OF WOMEN explores the gaps in representation which presented a very controlled colonial vision of the British Raj and its people, often replacing Indian actors with British actors.
- Großbritannien
- 00:14:05
- Director: Michelle Williams Gamaker
- Languages: en
- Year: 2017
- German Premiere
Sea of Clouds
SEA OF CLOUDS reflects on the relationship between images and their possible narration. Filmed in and around the island of Taiwan the film is structured around an interview with contemporary artist Chen Chieh-Jen. SEA OF CLOUDS explores the relationship between film, landscape and rural life and the layered histories of these sites as potential places of self-organisation and resistance. Built around the question of translation and the relationship of what we hear to what we see, the film follows Chen's retelling of the farmer's tradition of using film screenings as means of covert political assembly during the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan.
- Großbritannien
- 00:16:00
- Director: George Clark
- Photography: George Clark
- Editing: George Clark
- Languages: zh,en
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2016
- Website
- German Premiere
Grain
The Film GRAIN is a result of a research of the archive material on political prisoners in Turkey who went into hunger strike against isolated captivity in 2000. Gruesome images found in the archive are edited into unrecognizable close ups with a contemplative voice-over talking about propaganda, violence and representation.
- Niederlande
- 00:04:37
- Director: belit sağ
- Languages: tr
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2016
- World Premiere
