Short film programme: Decolonize the Archive

Short film programme: Decolonize the Archive

Film still "Majub's journey", a man in a uniform stands in front of a row of other men in uniform

Resilience in the image. The filmmakers explore artistic possibilities for dealing with racist archive images from the colonial era.

In cooperation with Theater im Depot.

Unearthing. In Conversation.

Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński

AT
2017
Experimental
13’
OF

An empty auditorium. A stack of photo boxes. A colonial flashback. As a performer, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński studies a series of […]

Verwoben & Vergessen

Rebecca Pokua Korang

DE
2023
Experimental
11’
OmeU

A long and still ongoing history of oppression and othering: Korang blends found footage from the Nazi propaganda film Germanin […]

Majub’s Journey

Eva Knopf

DE
2013
Documentary
50’
OmeU

Majub bin Adam Mohamed Hussein, born in the colony of »German East Africa«, was just nine years old when he […]

US
2013
Documentary
8’
OmeU

Paris, Folies Bergère, 1926: Josephine Baker performs her iconic banana dance on stage, surrounded by stereotypical props. In later years, […]