ART IS A STATE OF MIND
Art is a State of Mind is an inspiring road trip with the conceptual artist and jack-of-all-trades Bernhard Zünkeler in search of his very subjective definition of success; an encounter with...
View ArticlePOL POT DANCING
Chea Samy, a celebrated dancer at the Cambodian Royal Palace, raises a boy as her own at her home on the palace grounds. Years later, as a forced labourer under the Khmer Rouge, she realises her foster...
View ArticleAFRICAN STYLES
Africa's fashion avant-garde is diverse and thriving. In the continent's major cities as well as in the African diaspora, creatives are setting trends with provocative, visionary designs and...
View ArticleKANT – THE EXPERIMENT OF FREEDOM
Immanuel Kant was already an important philosopher during his lifetime. Three hundred years after his birth, the film shows for the first time Kant's close connection to his native Königs-berg, a place...
View ArticleHONG KONG – CENSORSHIP, PROTEST, ART
Ai Weiwei's middle finger – deleted. Pillar of Shame – removed. The film Revolution of Our Times – banned. Bit by bit, critical art is being eliminated in Hong Kong. How are the creatives reacting? Are...
View ArticleJOHNNY & ME – A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME WITH JOHN HEARTFIELD
Graphic artist Stefanie is in the middle of a creativity crisis. In a museum, she is captivated by the satirical photomontages of the world-famous artist and Nazi opponent John Heartfield....
View ArticleIRVIN YALOM
Irvin Yalom is a well-known psychiatrist and celebrated author. He has produced numerous bestselling novels. How did Yalom become the man he is today? The film follows him in his everyday life and...
View ArticleYES WE CAN – CONTEMPORARY BLACK ART
Michelle and Barack Obama are the first Black presidential couple to be represented at the National Gallery, and for the first time ever, Black artists were commissioned to do the portraits. The Obamas...
View ArticleJEW SUESS 2.0
Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, driven to new extremes by the COVID crisis. This film documents the visual roots of this new anti-Semitism, taking a historical look at the visual propaganda of...
View ArticleGOOGOOSH – MADE OF FIRE
The singer Googoosh was a cult figure and pop icon in Iran in the 1960s and 70s who rose to international fame. Put under house arrest after the revolution, her career lay dormant for more than 20...
View ArticleREMARKABLE WOMEN – PAINTERS FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO CLASSICISM
The film portrays four remarkable European female artists from the Renaissance to Classicism, who carved unusual careers in very different social settings: star of the Renaissance, Sofonisba...
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