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Jun 22 - Jun 22

170 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02116

https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=24744007

PRICE: Free, $5 donation welcome

TIME: 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm

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Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani introduce two of their experimental documentary films and lead a discussion with the audience after their screening. The two short films are Freedom of Movement (2018) and Appropriation takes you on a weird ride (2020).


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 and el Sani have re-contextualised amidst Rome’s controversial rationalist architecture, a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to their “freedom of movement." Fischer and 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
 
Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani
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 20th century, onward to the appropriation of Indigenous identities by Nazi ideologists, up until the present day, when new right-wing groups have developed an unsettling identification with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.


In cooperation with Villa Aurora.

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