The Documentary depicts a performative action taking place in the city of Berlin in front of cultural and governmental institutions, for instance the building of the federal intelligence service in Berlin. The hat which moves the action of its wearer towards the performative realm, is modeled after a typical surveillance camera. The wearer emulates the movements of the real surveillance cameras within their proximity and seems to silently communicate with them.… >>>
- Director: Beatrice Mumdschijan-Schuett
The vividness of the female body is deconstructed and rethought by Sabine Marte. The bodies appear in a domestic yet undefined space and are presented through empty picture frames. Full visor helmets as well as black tape sculpture the nakedness of the performers and provide a political statement to the loss of utopia. Working, exhausted bodies are accompanied by music and spoken political texts and form a critical and at the same time poetic image of neoliberal and capitalist working conditions.… >>>
AGE OF AMPUTATION is the final part of four films that deal with war, amputations, drones, and improvised explosive devices. The video transposes the metaphor of amputation onto the planet. It weaves various facts and thoughts about amputation and contextualizes them within our present ecological crisis.… >>>
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Nugzari, the filmmaker’s father, joined one of the waves of migrants from Post-Soviet areas seeking employment in western European countries. He found jobs as a construction worker, mainly in Portugal. In August 2008, he had an accident at work. His right hand was dragged, twisted, and torn away by a concrete mixer. The film follows the visible traces of the invisible hand of Nugzari, contextualizing and examining them between the bureaucratic labyrinths which allowed him to get a disability pension and the symbolic familiar and social values of this "absent hand". A reflection throughout different political ideologies that are represented and governed by symbolic hands: From the Soviet Union - whose ideology claimed that its political body was governed by “the collective hand of the workers” to global capitalism - whose economic structure is "regulated" by "the invisible hand of the free market".… >>>
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
- Director: Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze
In front of the camera and in her private spaces a young woman shares a love letter written to her wheelchair. The spoken text, accompanied by a silent dance, reflects on personhood in relation to disability. Social barriers are confronted with personal issues and individual will. Far away from heroic ideals and collective stigmas the film shows things just as they are.… >>>
