Privilege Check
What is Europe’s role in the world? Which role do we Europeans play? Who is part of the “elite” and what kind of privileges are connected to it? How do artists position themselves in the international context? Is production of art in current times even still acceptable? And who is getting an accreditation for the documenta? PRIVILEGE CHECK searches for answers.
Welcome to the Expats
People living abroad for work get called expats (lat. expatria, out of your fatherland). They are mostly white and happen to come from an economically strong country. The filmmaker was an so called 'expat'. Her parents were. Confrontation and reflexion via skype conversations.
- Deutschland
- 00:09:10
- Director: Thea Drechsler
- Languages: en,de
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2017
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
Manipulation 18.05.
This is what is coined as "fake news" in the media today. On May 18, 1980, a democracy movement against dictatorship occurred in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Although the democratization movement failed, it had an important influence on the democracy of the Republic of Korea. Certain hyper conservative politicians and extreme right-wingers today claim that the resistance was initiated by North Korean Socialists. In order to seek and gain their own interests they would use ideological confrontation to manipulate history itself. If we watch this video with sincerity and care, we will be able to notice the truth contained in it.
- Deutschland
- 00:01:27
- Director: Seungkyu Jung
- Year: 2017
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
Obvious
An observation at the sea and besides the description of the non-existent. But who is actually the observer, who the observed? What is true? And who can ever tell? A very short drawn animation film about fabulous creatures, expectations and positions of power, based on a short text of Daniil Charmes.
- Deutschland
- 00:01:09
- Director: Alma Weber
- Languages: en
- Year: 2017
- Golden Hercules
Daily Notes
Eurocentrism can not only be found in depictions of maps but also in historical discourses. Eurocentric history draws a linear, European history, starting in Greece, continuing with the Roman empire and ending with European and American metropoles. History is seen as a sequence of empires. In all cases, Europe stands as the only driving force for progressive and historical development. Manthia Diawara wrote that we need to enter into a state of world and mind that was less prone to discovery and conquest, and to espouse a philosophy of relation that looked at our differences not as that which divide us, but which link us individually and collectively in the greater good.
- Deutschland
- 00:10:48
- Director: Yuyen Lin-Woywod, Wen Hsaun Chang, Hannah Windisch, Isabella Artadi, Thea Josepha Konatsu Drechsler
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2017
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
The Fifth Planet_a Lamplighter
‚The Lamplighter‘ by Carlo Domenico is played on a transverse flute, this piece was composed for ‚The Little Prince‘. The viewer only sees the inside of the flute though, hearing the keys clicking but the expected music is not produced by the player. The video is focused on the space that produces sound and not the sound itself, the visible space becomes its own tonal range. This is where the borders of space blur and the video opens up for new interpretations of what the space of sound might be. The audibility of sound becomes a threshold within the transverse flute.
- Deutschland
- 00:01:55
- Director: Brigit Edelmann
- Year: 2016
- Website
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
The Pussy-Bee
The pussy-bee is the first self-talking artpiece in the history of the world. It s standing in the Museum of Modern Art in New York next to the room of Pablo Picasso in the third floor. Because of her monologue, the visitors get some informations about her biography, the trouble of the art scene and about her inventor, the famous artist Jimmy Lee Rakete.
- Deutschland
- 00:04:00
- Director: Daniel von Bothmer
- Languages: de
- Year: 2017
- Golden Hercules
- German Premiere
Manifest
The film MANIFEST is the outcome of the various struggles as a freshman student of fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, in particular the unlimited formal opportunities and the high pressure to create something unique with significance. In the todays society with its surplus production, compulsive stimulation and lack of appropriateness, the question of legitimacy for art production become more and more prominent. The absurd conclusion in this film is a proposal to give up any art production itself.
- Deutschland
- 00:01:50
- Director: Aya Limbacher
- Languages: de
- Subtitles: de
- Year: 2017
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
Poor People Relax Me
A wants B but then C happens and then D. The main character is the filmmaker herself and what she wants is to be a good artist. But then Mexico happens. She realizes that with the little euro she has, she is actually pretty rich in Mexico. She decides that this is what she wants to aspire to, being one of those people who are getting money for not working a lot.
- Deutschland
- 00:41:00
- Director: Clara Winter, Miguel Ferráez
- Languages: en,es,fr,de
- Subtitles: de
- Year: 2017
- Golden Hercules
- World Premiere
