Fokus: Kurzfilmprogramm: Decolonize the Archive

In the organizer's words:

Short film programme: Decolonize the Archive

Resilience in the image. The filmmakers explore artistic possibilities for dealing with racist archive images from the colonial era. By showing solidarity with the people depicted, they also invite us to fundamentally question these images.

In cooperation with Theater im Depot

Interwoven & Forgotten
Rebecca Pokua Korang
DE 2023, 11'

Korang resists images of oppression and othering: she deconstructs Nazi propaganda and assembles a movement performance with historical and contemporary found footage.

Unearthing: In Conversation
Belinda Kezeem-Kamiński
AT 2017, 13'

How to deal with the photos taken by ethnographer Paul Schebesta in the Belgian colony of Congo in the 1930s? The artist examines strategies of a resistant gaze.

Josephine Baker Watches Herself
Terri Francis
USA 2013, 8'

Film footage of Josephine Baker, an older woman interviewed about her own career as a Black revue star in a white entertainment industry.

Majub's journey
Eva Knopf
DE 2013, 48'

The reconstruction of a biography based on propaganda films and the archives of the National Socialists: Majub bin Adam Mohamed Hussein, born in the colony of German East Africa, a soldier for the Germans in the First World War, a busy extra in German films under fascism.

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