The CCTV cameras watch us and we watch with our cameras. THE COLOR OF TRUTH is dedicated to radical protests and social movements and explores the politics of cameras and the narratives that emerge from them. In the book of the same name, Hito Steyerl explores the mediation or editing of reality in its meaning and in documentary formatting. The films in the program invite us to reflect on the diverse approaches and ways of dealing with the problems of the polis beyond the institutions. (Afsun Moshiry, Dr. Carolina Alves Vestena)
ECOTONE is an essay film about borderlands and the practices of control that are exerted over spaces in order to maintain their separation. Structured as a set of fields arranged according to scale (from vast natural areas to minute bodily spaces), ECOTONE is a critique of current forms of capitalism, such as surveillance capitalism and bio-capitalism. Using a wide range of visual materials, ECOTONE aims to activate potential relationalities while demonstrating how economic, political, historical, and environmental aspects intersect with each other.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
- Director: Enar de Dios Rodríguez
We are in Taksim Square watching the aftermath of this last mass demonstration in the city, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Two voices reflect on what they see on the screen. A child playing with a red balloon, youngsters dancing on the street, people taking photos, Marina Abramović’s first exhibition in Istanbul, … As the narrative unfolds, images take new meaning: These are screen recordings of Istanbul municipalities’ 7/24 live and open-access "Touristic Cameras" taken on the 8th of March, Women’s Day 2020. MARCH 8, 2020: A MEMOIR is a multi-voiced desktop essay/documentary attempting to find the blind spots of such images, traveling in time via screen recordings.
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Behind the "sensitive content", behind this symbol of the crossed-out eyes, in this Deep Blur, two real eyes have been erased by the violence in the Middle East. This Deep Blur video is about the eyewitnesses who don't look away, who stay there, with their fainting eyes and their trembling hands, recording the "sensitive content." They are risking their lives, fighting for visibility. But to what extent we in the West should deepen ourselves over these symbolic eyes, or consciously choose "hide visibility"!… >>>
Nominated:
A38-Production Grant Kassel-Halle
Setting with displacement and synthesis of audio and visual elements, this film simulates the interface hidden in the power system, which embodies the increasing conflict between two fundamental forces in reality: the homogenized controlling process and the immensity and specificity of every struggling that cannot be homogenized.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
A dictator says his last words in front of his followers before spending the last seconds of his life sitting while people are breaking into his house. Last moments are full of emotions, questioning all his beliefs and being afraid of death.… >>>
Premiere:
German Premiere
