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SUMMARY:Focus 4: Between Worlds
DESCRIPTION:Our home and homeland are something solid\, yet crumbling. Something evident\, yet elusive. They are more than just a place. They are a bridge between the past and the present\, leading to the future. They are ongoing experiences and volatile objects in an age when people are increasingly becoming nomads\, whether by choice or necessity. The films compiled here represent different facets of what a home and homeland can be: as part of an identity that we are working on and which is constantly being reshaped\; an understanding of life\, a worldview\, an emotion\, a feeling somewhere between a sense of connection with others and exclusion\, situated between memories and lived reality.\nOur home and homeland can also be found within a possibility\, a utopia. In Hansol Kim’s music video K-BOB STAR\, for instance\, the grandmother and housewife Young-E Son is transformed into a virtual pop star. With a meal playing a major role in this\, as a ritual like no other connected to the Korean home and homeland. Ely Dagher’s animated work WAVES ’98 is a moving meditation on the contradiction of feeling lost in one’s own homeland while hoping for a better future. Alejo Franzetti’s dreamlike fiction film THE WHOLE NIGHT explores social\, mental and spatial homes and sketches the situation of a woman who\, in the face of hostility\, defends her belonging to a culture with self-confidence and stands her ground. L’AVANCE by Djiby Kebe focuses on a relational home\, on complex family relationships and obligations\, revealing that the desire for financial and social advancement is not always compatible with them.\nNature can be a great mosaic tile in our sense of a home and homeland. The Anthropocene\, an era in which humans have become the central force shaping nature through their profound incursions\, also influences our concept of the homeland. The essay film SUN UNDER GROUND from Alex Gerbaulet and Mareike Bernien is a deep drill through space and time into the historic waste dumps of East Germany left behind from the uranium mining undertaken there in the GDR era by the mining company Wismut.\n\nHusein Bastouni\, Sven Pötting
LOCATION:Dresden\, Schauburg\, Tarkowski-Saal
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