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Cage, Maierhof, Radigue @ klub katarakt 2017
The Hamburg artists’ festival klub katarakt has presented German and world premieres of experimental music at Kampnagel every year since 2005. Due to its surging popularity, the music festival has frequently reached capacity in recent years, and...
transmediale 2017 – ever elusive
What started as a “VideoFilmFest” has now become one of the most prominent festivals for art and digital culture in the world. The transmediale is one of Germany’s cultural institutions of excellence which the Federal Cultural Foundation has pledged...
transmediale 2016 – Conversation Piece
The transmediale is one of the largest festivals of art and digital culture in Germany and has been staged in Berlin every year for the past 30 years. It is one of Germany’s cultural institutions of excellence which the Federal Cultural Foundation...
Sisters in African Cinema
In recent years, women from African countries have started numerous film projects, established production companies and casting agencies and organised film festivals – from the Ivory Coast to Nigeria and all the way to Zimbabwe. In effect, they are...
Bobe Mayses?
For the past 15 years, the Yiddish Summer Weimar Festival has brought Yiddish culture to this historic site of German Classicism. Every year, artists, scholars and participants from two dozen countries meet at festival events and workshops over a...
Izbica - The Turnstile of Death
The Polish town of Izbica near Lublin was made into a "transit ghetto" by the SS in 1941. From there, tens of thousands of Jews were transported to the Majdanek and Sobibor death camps. Thousands of others were murdered right there in town by the...
Living with the Memory
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and its Information Centre opened in Berlin in May 2005. Beginning in September 2008 the Memorial Foundation presented over one thousand interviews with survivors of the Holocaust, collectively titled...
Script Films
Film directors have used the written word as a design element in moving pictures since day one. These include films or parts of films which feature moving, animated or graphically designed text – a technique still used today in a variety of forms in...
Provocation of Reality
On 28 February 1962, 26 filmmakers, including the directors Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz and Peter Schamoni, affixed their signature to the Oberhausen Manifesto. It declared the collapse of conventional German film and demanded a renewal of West...
The City Named Desire
The Berlin Artists' Programme (BKP) managed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has been around for 40 years and sees itself as the "mother of all artist-in-residence programmes". In the film The City Named Desire (Sehnsucht Berlin),...