Film Analysis Workshop
"Europe's Antivirus-System" - In/Visibilities of Borders and Migration

If there is a political dream of the border today, it is like anti-virussoftware: constantly scanning traffic,identifying threats, quarantining, disinfecting and silently isolating risks so that all those flows which we are told to value can continue to circulate and proliferate. A technology which, because the „threat" is constantly morphing, must achieve a condition of permanent updating

(Wiliam Walters in conversation with Marion von Osten, Genealogies of Control, Projekt Migration, Dumont 2006)


The following questions were topics of the discussion:
What happens when artists produce visual works about people with illegal status?

How can the contradiction between visibility and illegality be made productive?

Which images of establishing and transgressing of borders are being produced?

Who speks for whom and from which point of view?

Which coallitions are possible between filmmakers and their protagonists?

How can layers of fact and fiction be combined not only to mirror, but also to create new realities?

These very tensions between art, film and activism were explored by analyzing film samples.

Sequel of the film analytical workshop: "Kitsch, Rache, Solidarität? Un/Sichtbarkeiten von Grenze und Migration"

in the Raumerweiterungshalle at Ostkreuz
on May 21 / 22 and 28 / 29
detailet information ...


List of films that have been discussed:
1) Domenico Distilo, The Calm and the Storm, 2010, Italian with English subtitles, 30 minutes
2) Domenico Distilo, The Unexpected, 2006, Italian with English subtitles, 30 minutes

3) Pieter Geenen, nocturne-lampedusa - fort europa, 2006, video 4:3, black and white, mute, infrared camera, mini DV, 28 minutes
www.silenceisgolden.be/nocturne.html

4) Farida Heuck, Boder Crossings, 2000, mini DV, English, 17 minutes
www.faridaheuck.net

5) Sandra Hetzl, .....ATIGYEA KORAA or IT HAS BACKFIRED, 2010, 47 minutes

6) Steffen Köhn, Synopsis of a film project on the situation of three refugees in Melilla, the spanish enclave in Morocco.

7) Ulrich Seidl, Import Export, 2007, 135 minutes
www.importexport.ulrichseidl.com
www.ulrichseidl.com/index.shtml

8) Zelimir Zilnik, Crni film (Black film), 1971, 35mm, black and white, Serbo-Croatian with German subtitles, 14 minutes
9) Zelimir Zilnik, Kenedi goes back home, 35mm, Serbo-Croatian and Romani with
German subtitles, 74 minutes
www.zelimirzilnik.com
www.zilnikzelimir.net

A project by Thomas Kilpper
A light tower for Lampedusa, work in progress
www.kilpper-projects.de/blog/


The film analysis workshop "Europe's Antivirus-System" - In/Visibilities of Borders and Migration was part of "Staging the Border" - the video platform 2010, a project by Martyna Starosta