CoFestival – The Art of Co-Living International Festival of Contemporary Dance 27 Nov – 6 Dec 2015, Ljubljana Nicholas Kaufmann, Wilhelm Prager: Ways To Strength And Beauty (Wege Zu Kraft Und Schonheit), 1925 With the modern concepts of biopolitics, changes in the public health and rapidly transforming modern society after the industrial revolutions, Central
CoFestival – The Art of Co-Living
International Festival of Contemporary Dance
27 Nov – 6 Dec 2015, Ljubljana
Nicholas Kaufmann, Wilhelm Prager: Ways To Strength And Beauty (Wege Zu Kraft Und Schonheit), 1925
With the modern concepts of biopolitics, changes in the public health and rapidly transforming modern society after the industrial revolutions, Central Europe – especially the German Empire (1871-1918) and Weimar republic (1918-1933) along with other European states of the early 20th Century – saw the immense growth of various physical cultures, naturism (nudism), youth movements, physical therapies and tactics of state sponsored media propaganda about healthy life-styles. A German documetary from 1925 challenges the citizens of Weimar Republic with health concepts of Ancient Greece, it shows them healthy folk dance practices of European and Non-European cultures and what modern physical and dance practices can do in order for them to avoid the unhealthy traps of industrialized modern life. The movie is an extraordinary document of a certain time and a very evident map of ideology that only eight years later brought Hitler to power.
Germany, 1925, 48′
Language: German with Slovenian subtitles
Directed by: Wilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann
Writing Credists: Wilhelm Prager, Nicholas Kaufmann, Ernst Krieger
Camera: Friedrich Weinmann, Eugen Hrich,Friedrich Paulmann, Max Brinck,Kurt Neubert, Erich Stöcker, Jakob Schatzo
Music: Giuseppe Becce
Cast: La Jana, Eva Liebenberg, Niddy Impekoven, Kitty Cauer, Hertha von Walther, Tamara Karsavina, Lydia Impekoven, Peter Wladimiroff, Jenny Hasselqvist
Produced by: Universum Film AG (Ufa) – Kulturabteilung (Berlin)
Stefano Liberti, Andrea Segre: Closed Sea
Our documentary aims to tell what actually happened to African refugees on the Italian ships during these “push back operations” and in Libyan prisons after their deportation. We met our witnesses in Choucha refugee camp, at the border between Libya and Tunisia, and in two reception camps for asylum seekers (C.A.R.A.) in southern Italy. Their interviews constitute the main part of the documentary, along with a session of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, where one of our witnesses sued Italy. The Court has recently condemned Italy for violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Andrea Segre is a film director, who for a number of years has been studying and telling about migrations towards Europe and the contradictions ofthe developed world. He wrote and directed Marghera Canale Nord (2003), which was selected for the 60th Venice Film Festival. He is a co-founder of Zalab. Stefano Liberti works as a journalist at “Il Manifesto” and collaborates with other newspapers, both Italian and international. He worked as director for Rai Tre broadcasting “C’era una volta”, producing documentariesHuman Guinea-Pigs and Give us this Day our Bread.
Italy 2012, 60 min
Language: Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali (English, Finnish, Swedish, German, Portuguese, French and Italian subtitles)
Directors: Stefano Liberti, Andrea Segre
Production: ZaLab DoP: Matteo Calore, Simone Falso, Andrea Segre Montaža / Editing: Sara Zavarise z/With: Ermias Berhane, Omer Ibrahim, Roman Amore, Jemal Mohammed Omer, Bekit Saleh Okud, Shishay Tesfay, Tedros Ojbay, Gedey Bahlbi, Nathael Tedros, Yoel Tedros, Abdirahman, Abdikadir, Foowis, Abu Kurke, Semere Kahsay, Tsige Kahsay, Nahere Kahsay
Sound: Riccardo Spagnol
Original Music: Piccola Bottega Baltazar
Graphics: Marco Lovisatti
Distribution: ZaLab international distribution (TV): Sideways Film
With the support of: Open Society Foundations
With the patronage of Amnesty International – Italian Section in/and UNHCR
Discussion on the topic of the film Closed Sea and the current migration crisis with invited authors and collaborators of the film.
Stefano Collizziolli, film producer, will present his standpoints and open the discussion.
Stefano Collizzolli is a PV trainer, a filmmaker and editor. He realizes and tutors participatory video workshops in Italy, Palestine, Tunisia, Senegal and Dominican Republic. He is a researcher in Sociology of communications, focusing on visual methodologies, and he teaches at Padua University. He is a co-funder of Zalab.
Language: English
