January 2012, arsenal cinema

UdK-Seminar: SO IS THIS. NOW.

DIE KRUMME PRANKE, 1997

The January edition of the UdK class on Time Based Media and Performance begins with Trinh T. Minh-ha's SURNAME VIET, GIVEN NAME NAM (USA 1989, 18.1., Introduced by Tabea Metzel). The theorist and filmmaker examines the consequences of the Vietnam War, such as exile and the feeling of being uprooted in Vietnamese (diaspora) society from a feminist perspective. In the satire MACHORKA-MUFF (1962/63) by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, the rearmament of the FRG is criticized, Ula Stöckl's dumpster kid in NIEDRIG GILT DAS GELD AUF DIESER ERDE (1970) meets a sorry end, an attack on a university accounts department fails in 3000 HÄUSER (Hartmut Bitomsky 1967) and in the animation documentary DIE KRUMME PRANKE (1997) by Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, Josef Strau and Amelie von Wulffen politicians sink into the ground by shaking hands with private capital. (25.1.) (Madeleine Bernstorff)