Pebbles
“I often find photos of strangers in the street... ” A collection of pictures taken from real life, condensed in an associative montage and complemented with speculative annotations.… >>>
- Duration: 11 Min.
- Director: Mikhail Zheleznikov
“I often find photos of strangers in the street... ” A collection of pictures taken from real life, condensed in an associative montage and complemented with speculative annotations.… >>>
Two newspaper articles, ten years apart, two different women, the same wording. In 2001 Göttingen Newspaper wrote that Margit (69) had lived a secluded life as an inconspicuous woman. In 2011 Hamburger Abendblatt stated that Irina (65) had lived in seclusion, a non-descript woman. Up to the moment of their appearance between these newspaper lines, both women were invisible, forcefully concealed by their roles as wives and homemakers. Only for a brief moment did they claim visibility. Through acts of violence. THE SLEEPER revolves around the time before these acts took place.… >>>
When the GDR collapsed in 1989, the Stasi (Ministry for State Security) started the large-scale destruction of files documenting unlawful activities. All shredded documents that could be saved from being burnt back then are now stored in the Stasi Records Agency – 15.500 sacks filled with paper snippets. A small unit of the agency is working on the reconstruction of the documents that might contain important information on the crimes of the dictatorship and the affected citizens. But without new, automatized methods, it will take several hundred years to descramble the secrets hidden in the sacks. What now?… >>>
Reverend Roland Gordon, pastor of San Francisco's Ingleside Presbyterian Church, takes on many roles: community leader and social worker, political actor and activist … In between all this, clipping by clipping, he continues the work on his life-long pet project: the “Cloud of Witnesses”, a monumental collage, a memorial to the Civil Rights Movement, and a space created to empower the black community. An experimental hommage to an unconventional hero.… >>>