Daniel Kötter ›Pembalakan‹

In the organizer's words:

As part of 'Shifting Grounds'

Familiar landscapes have turned into question marks. Trees have been felled, entire forests have been cleared. And now? What happens where nothing grows anymore? A question that arises in many places around the world. The project 'Pembalakan' by documentary filmmaker and theater director Daniel Kötter is an adaptation of the play 'Roden' and undertakes a topography of this loss. Three studies from the Bergisches Land, South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kalimantan in Indonesia are the starting point for a theatrical and cinematographic parcours and for an immersive journey into areas where ecological and social systems have been violently overturned and temporalities overlap.
Together with women's rights activist Olande Byamungu, instrument maker and musician Ikbal Lubys and carpenter and performer Wolfram Sander, Daniel Kötter invites us into a world where catastrophe is a lived reality. The question remains: what is possible here? 'Roden' follows on from the series 'landscapes and bodies', which was shown at PACT Zollverein in 2021 and examined the effects of extractivism on landscapes and communities in Indonesia, the DR Congo and Germany.

Meeting point: PACT Zollverein, Bullmannaue 20A, 45327 Essen

Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before your booked time slot!

Important information: The event takes place outside on the grounds of the Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site and is not barrier-free accessible. Most of the footpath surface is gravel, some places of the event can only be reached on foot via narrow, unpaved paths.

From 16 years

Content notes:
Descriptions of sexualized violence

Languages:
German, Bahassa indonesia, Swahili, Mashi with surtitles in German and English