We are being told to stay alert by the media and government, and we are being watched, both online and offline. Are we really safe? How can we live our lives if we walk around with this nonstop feeling of surveillance? This sense of threat is looked at from a distance and see how ridiculous it actually is.
Beyond the forest is the city of tomorrow, before the forest are the villages of yesterday.
Short film
GERMANY | 10 minutes | 2015
The evening of a man accused to have kidnapped his baby.
FRANCE | 10 minutes | 2010
Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? These were the theories that New York puzzled over last summer. How can one incident be interpreted in so many ways? By means of press reports, SYMBOLIC THREATS allows the public at large to express their extreme disparity of interpretation. Inspired by the heated debate over the two "White American Flags" that suddenly appeared on the towers of New York City’s iconic Brooklyn Bridge, the film asks what kind of societal scope art has in the...
GERMANY | 15 minutes | 2015
Music Video to the song Close Your Eyes (and Count to Fuck) by hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Zack de la Rocha, depicting the long struggle between a white cop and a black man.
UNITED STATES | 5 minutes | 2015
A young woman, an activist, runs through the streets. A skater glides across the tarmac. Paint bombs are positioned and, when they explode, the police arrive. There are people everywhere. At night stones fly, cars burn and there is tear gas in the air. The palaces are still being protected. Tweets describe the events, not just here, but all over the world: 'Markets are global, so is resistance.' There are protests everywhere. A montage of images of demonstrations builds to a mesmerising frenzy...
ARGENTINA, Germany, Chile | 15 minutes | 2015
While the Belgrade is being hit by NATO bombings, Ivana is preparing herself for a night out while telling her boyfriend the news of her pregnancy.
NETHERLANDS | 10 minutes | 2009
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