“What would Fasia say?”
Marny Garcia Mommertz
Marny Garcia Mommertz explores how the legacy of Fasia Jansen, a Black German Holocaust survivor, singer and peace activist, resonates in a contemporary diasporic network. The starting point is an interview which Tina Campt conducted with Fasia in 1992. By interweaving archive footage with contemporary perspectives, a complex portrait of individual and collective memory emerges.
The production of the film was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the exhibition “Das ist kolonial”.
Marny Garcia Mommertz
Marny Garcia Mommertz is a writer and artist who specialises in Afrodiasporic archives, with a particular focus on connections between Germany and Cuba. She advises art institutions on exhibition curation and archival methods. She was a recipient of the PACT Zollverein Fellowship, studied Museum studies at the University of Amsterdam and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in curatorial practice at the University of Bergen.
