Colonialism, space, post-racist future: Simone Dede Ayivi’s performance in Berlin’s Sopiehensälen tells at the same time about today, about the past and about another tomorrow, because: “It’s hard to stop rebels that time travels”.
Browsing: Biographies
Afrofuturist, filmmaker, and activist Amadine Gay’s documentary assembles the experiences of Francophone European Black women in the diaspora into a multi-layered collage about Blackness, art, racial discrimination, and the reappropriation of one’s own narrative.
In her autobiographically influenced comic, Marjane Satrapi tells of growing up during the so-called “Islamic Revolution” in Iran in the late 1970s, the Iran-Iraq War, and her early exile in the diaspora in Vienna.
The documentary “Phoolan” by Hossein Fazeli tells the life of Phoolan Devi (1963-2001) from the northern Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Canadian David. In this graphic novel, H.T. Wong uses the Wong family as an example to tell the story of the first Chinese immigrants to the United States. A story that is marked by resistance to a racist policy of discrimination over the entire narrative period of five generations.
Art Spiegelman tells the story of Auschwitz survivor Wladek in his graphic novel. The character is based on Spiegelmann’s father, and the narrative setting – the father telling his son about the Holocaust and his memories of it – also bears strong autobiographical traits.
In this comic, Vina Yun addresses the story(s) of Korean migration to Vienna in the 1970s, using the example of her family. In different episodes, the lives and everyday experiences of two generations, mother and daughter, are told.
The Romani Elders is a website that celebrates works and achievements of “Romani Elders”. The website of the European Roma…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSe7rkK76x4 Im Oktober 2016 erscheint And Still I Rise, die erste Dokumentation über das Leben, das dichterische Werk und das…
Around 150 people of different ages and origins tell their story: How and why did they come to Germany?…
In “The Good German,” Christian Bommarius tells the story of Manga Bell, the son of a Cameroonian ruler who studied…
[youtube id=”0lG1s5iMsZE”] The film “Hope in the Heart” directed by Maria Binder shows as a unique document stages of the…