Film Screening & Discussion
Freedom of Movement
Film Screening and Artist Talk with Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
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The Berlin-based artist duo Nina Fischer &
Freedom of Movement
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
30 min., Germany 2018
HD, German with English subtitles
Evoking the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian Abebe Bikila conquered the African continent’s first gold medal, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and a symbol of the Africa that was freeing itself of colonialism, Fischer & el Sani have recontextualised amidst Rome’s controversial rationalist architecture, a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to their “freedom of movement”. Fischer & el Sani are examining the complexity of ideological, political and architectural implications of Bikila‘s 1960‘s Olympic gold medal run to this day.
Appropriation takes you on a weird ride
20 min., Germany 2020
4K, German with English subtitles
"Appropriation takes you on a weird ride" investigates the strange German enthusiasm for Native Americans in relation to contemporary racism and its deep colonial roots. This fascination, especially with regard to the construction of a German identity, has a rather frightening than impressive chronology: it begins with the first-century Germanic Cherusci chieftan Arminius and stretches to the adventure novels of Karl May and the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows in the 1800s, through the ethnographic exhibitions (Völkerschauen) in zoos and circuses and founding of “Indian clubs" at the turn of the twentieth century, onward to the appropriation of Indigenous identities by Nazi ideologists, up until the present day, when new rightwing groups have developed an unsettling identification with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.
In cooperation with Villa Aurora.
Details
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116
Language: English
Price: Admission free, $5 donation welcome