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Public spaces always have a history. They trace political struggles and interventions long forgotten or invisible to those unknowing. The films of this program utilize several means to oppose this public oblivion. They thematize poverty, racism, and segregation by acutely localizing them as they confront their political present with their past and their future. All films aspire to raise consciousness for power relations usually tangible only for those suffering under them. (Esra Sönmez, Maximilian Pichl)
Christian Diaz Orejarena takes an artistic residency in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia as a starting point to question the role of the Western artist as cultural producer in economically deprived contexts. In the form of a video diary, the film reflects on the context and conditions in which the music video Fronteras Visibles was created.… >>>
Thoughts about how we perceive the Other, his institutional, literary and architectonic heritage while looking at Madrid in 2020 through a sociological work called "Low Life in Madrid" published in 1901… >>>
“Do I really have to travel to 2020? Or can I still switch to another year?” – Two black women in a holodeck simulation. The year 2440. Place of residence: Saturn. Racism, sexism and capitalism have been overcome. The destination: Earth. The history of our past echoes into our future. Afro-German history, that has been made invisible. The N-word that continues to be uttered in Germany, Germanness and Blackness as a contradiction, an error in the system. THE DOOR OF RETURN is an Afro-futuristic documentary. A thought experiment.… >>>
France, Strasbourg, 2019, an immigrated Iranian woman, who is an art student, floating through and observing her new life while she is still attached to her past. Lost in the past and present of her personal, social and political lives, she struggles to understand and survive in the paradoxical parallel worlds... living somewhere in between.… >>>