Namibia Today
Horelli Laura
Seven people wait in an underground station below Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin. Billboards line the walls, each combining a front page of “Namibia Today” with associative material. “Namibia Today” was a journal of the Namibian liberation movement, which was printed and distributed by GDR during times of military confrontation with South Africa
Production Year
2018
Duration
00:22:22
Tyyppi
Asiasana
documentarism, experimental films, history, media criticism, memories (mental objects), propaganda, public transport, stations
Original Title
Namibia Today
English Title
Namibia Today
Production Countries
Finland,Germany,Namibia
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Laura Horelli (Author), Laura Horelli (Cinematographer), Anne Misselwitz (Cinematographer), Laura Horelli (Director), Laura Horelli (Script), Joe Ashipala (Actor), Simon Tijmbawe (Actor), Reinhold Mupupapa (Actor), Uwe Jaenicke (Actor), Ilona Schleicher (Actor), Hans-Georg Schleicher (Actor), Felix Kaluwapa (Actor), Patrik Metzger (Color Grading), Janina Herhoffer (Editor), Koneen säätiö (Funder), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (Funder), Ilja Köster (Recording engineer), Simon Tijmbawe (Recording engineer), Manja Ebert (Sound), Jochen Jezussek (Sound Design), Eva Hertzsch (Support), Adam Page (Support), Vincent Schier (Support), Lilian Engelmann (Support), Jochen Becker (Support)
Laura Horelli (b. 1976, Helsinki) lives in Berlin and works with experimental documentary video. She is interested in representations and mediations of the past taking on a microhistorical approach. Her works have been exhibited at Venice Biennale (2001, 2009), Manifesta 5, (2004), ARS 11, Kiasma (2001, 2011), Galerie Barbara Weiss (2003, 2007, 2011) and Badischer Kunstverein (2014). She has participated in film festivals like Berlinale Forum Expanded (2017, 2018), ISFF Oberhausen (2018), IndieLisboa (2017), Kasseler Dokfest (2013) and CPH:DOX (2009). In 2011, she received the Hannah Höch Prize for Young Artists.
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