DOK.special Lenbachhaus
Geopolitics and Bodies: Three moving images
As part of a cooperation with Munich-based DOK.fest München, Lenbachhaus presents the film series Geopolitics and Bodies: Three moving images. Three positions, differing greatly in their approaches and formats - reaching from performance documentation to feature film, and documentary - outline a space, in which consequences of abstract geopolitical interests become manifest in concrete bodies.
THE GREAT WHITE WAY, 22 MILES, 9 YEARS, 1 STREET
United States 2001 – Director: William Pope L. – English original version. Free entrance – Length: 5 min.
To be on the ground, to be horizontal in a „vertical society“, to crawl in the filth of the street: it is with this simple, yet imposing gesture that William Pope L.'s Crawl performances operate as a symbolic analogy to the conditions of class difference. Departing from the standpoint that racism is not an outcome of race, but race one of racism, the work of Pope L., who also calls himself „the friendliest black artist of America“, hauls ideological constructions of 'whiteness' and 'blackness' into the larger arena of social class and its signifiers.
Production: N/A. Producer: N/A.
OUR BODY IS A WEAPON
France, Mexico, Turkey 2011 – Director: Clarisse Hahn – English subtitles. Free entrance – Length: 43 min.
In her three-part video series, Hahn documents instances such as a protests of peasants in Mexico City or the hunger strike of two Kurdish women emprisoned in Turkey – in which bodies act as tools of resistance against exploitation and expropriation.
English/Original Title: NOTRE CORPS EST UNE ARME. Camera: Clarisse Hahn. Sound: Mikaël Barre. Editing: Clarisse Hahn. Production: N/A. Producer: N/A.
