Mit ihren irritierenden Fotos von verschleierten Frauen, deren Hände, Gesichter oder Füße sie mit Gedichten in Farsi beschriftete, wurde die Exiliranerin Shirin Neshat Mitte der 1990er Jahre weltweit bekannt. Die selbstbewusste Darstellung von, für westliche Augen, unterdrückten…
Hans Neuenfels zählt zu den stilprägendsten Regisseuren Deutschlands. Er ist Theater- und Opernregisseur, Filmemacher und Autor und gilt als einer der Väter des deutschen Regietheaters. Als "enfant terrible" des Theaters, dessen Arbeiten polarisieren, fiel Hans Neuenfels schon…
In the small Belgian town of Verviers in the mid-60s, most of the textile factories that had contributed to the town’s prosperity closed down. On witnessing the end of an epoch, the town council decided to put together a collection of old textile machines, stored in an old industrial shed. A group…
Im Mittelpunkt des Films steht Katharina Grosses künstlerisches Schaffen und ihre innovative Methode, Räume – sowohl im Innen- als auch im Außenbereich – in vibrierende Leinwände zu verwandeln. Der Film begleitet die Entstehung von Grosses immersiver Installation im Hamburger…
American artist Kiki Smith is a pioneer of contemporary sculpture and one of the most outstanding artists of our time. She has created a multifaceted body of work that explores political and social as well as philosophical and spiritual aspects of human nature. The artist investigates the human body…
Summer 2015. La Chapelle neighbourhood, Paris. Hundreds of exiled people from East Africa survive on the streets, chased violently by the police, yet seeking to defend their rights as asylum seekers. Some months later, having finally obtained their rightful housing, two Sudanese young men return to the…
El Ojo Comienza En La Mano is a tribute to campesino histories in rural CA through the artwork of Ruben A. Sanchez, an artist largely absent from critical conversations on Chicanx art, as well as an unsentimental reckoning with the fate of many cultural workers who struggle to balance rent and creative…
Celebrating 100 years of Garcia Lorca’s Deep Song contest, DUENDE takes us through one of the most awaited festivals in Granada, Spain: Easter week. Duende is an intimate, unexpected tale of an encounter with the afterlife, a series of miracles that can only be experienced through watching, being…
The villages in southwest Bulgaria have long been known for the cultivation and production of tobacco. Muslim Pomaks, still engaged in this work, are facing a decline due to the low purchase price of dry tobacco leaves and difficult working conditions. Tobacco manufacture, once an element of identification…
The American artist Jenny Holzer’s medium is language. For more than 30 years, her name has stood for a conceptual art that calls into question our perceptions and the way we are influenced by media and politics. Although her pieces can be found in all the world’s major museums, the roots…
Dans un contexte où l’avortement demeure un sujet délicat et souvent mal compris, ce film documentaire explore le parcours épineux de l’interruption volontaire de grossesse (IVG) en Polynésie. Un droit qui a mis 26 ans à s’imposer après…
A documentary written and directed by Caroline Riegel (52') Synopsis : In the Himalayan valley of Zanskar, a nunnery from another era is the home of a group of remarkable Buddhist nuns. These nuns, with generous hearts and a joyfulness which is contagious, have received little education and…
