Power Constructions
The key figure of the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 in Russia was Lenin. After his death in 1924 Lenin’s image was immortalized in countless numbers of monuments in the Soviet Union and in the Soviet bloc’s countries. In her video, Marina Fomenko refers to the in-stone-engraved image of the revolutionary leader through archival materials and found footage. There is neither a living nor a dead Lenin in the film; only “the stone guest” has become ingrained in the Soviet people's lives.… >>>
A research on the consequences and (in-)visibilities of genocide, apartheid and racism in Namibia, by looking closely at some of the recent commemorations to the genocide of the Herero and the Nama by German colonial powers between 1904 and 1908. The film combines the gaze of the camera lens on an old monument that marks Namibia ́s struggle for independence, with images of the H.E.S.S. telescopes that measure cosmic gamma rays.… >>>
A flaneur strolls through the rooms of the former State Council of the GDR which today is a private business college. His gaze rests upon the new old castle next door, which represents a system under which in the 19th century during the Congo Conference the african colonies were divided and which after its reconstruction now hosts Berlins' ethnological collection. The flaneur tries to make sense of how the world is measured and distributed.… >>>
- Director: Juliane Henrich
Eight prototypes for a border wall stand on the US-Mexico border. To choose a winning design, border patrol and the military will attempt to climb, dig under, or breach the structures using techniques employed by immigrants and drug dealers.… >>>
- Director: Luis Gutiérrez Arias, John Henry Theisen
Chronicling the life of Ghanaian housing activist Dora Boatemah and her influence on the regeneration of Angell Town Estate in Brixton, South London.… >>>
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Goldener Key
This film deals with the commemoration of the internment of Japanese-Americans at the former War Relocating Center in Manzanar during World War II. Annually, since 1973 on the last weekend of April survivors, their relatives, as well as sympathizing groups come together to commemorate the forced displacement and detention of more than 10,000 people to Manzanar. In her video Luise Schröder focusses on different historical, political and visual narratives with the purpose to understand how and in which way the historical events are represented and reconstructed today.… >>>
