Videos in Close-Up – analysing activist videos, their strategies & practices

GRETAS LYNCH MOB CHASES VL

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GRETAS LYNCH MOB CHASES VL

Jonathan2020-11-16T19:28:26+00:00July 20th, 2020|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|Tags: rechtsextreme Aufmerksamkeitsstrategien, Skandalisierung, Volkslehrer|

The right-wing extremist activist Nikolai Nerling – known as ‘The People’s Teacher’ (‘Der Volkslehrer’) and meanwhile legally barred from the teaching profession – attends a Fridays for Future demo to portray himself as a victim and stir up opinion against the climate protection movement. The video is paradigmatic for attempts by right-wing extremists to [...]

The Autocomplete Truth

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The Autocomplete Truth

Raphael Flechtner2020-11-16T19:57:12+00:00March 17th, 2018|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|

In order to draw attention to the ongoing problem of everyday sexism, the United Nations organisation UN Women is portraying the online search engine Google as an objective guarantor of truth. The reactions are divided. Produced by the agency ‘Memac Oglivy & Mather Dubai’ and released in [...]

Ship Carrying Nuclear Waste Harried by Greenpeace Boats

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Ship Carrying Nuclear Waste Harried by Greenpeace Boats

Raphael Flechtner2020-11-16T19:50:33+00:00March 14th, 2018|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|Tags: authenticity effect, Beweiskraft, Charity & NGO, Zeugenvideos|

Greenpeace activists try to prevent the dumping of nuclear waste in the Atlantic Ocean – and meet with resistance and scorn. Only years later does the campaign succeed. With dozens of barrels of nuclear waste on board, the freighter Gem, chartered by the British Atomic Energy Agency [...]

The DNA Journey

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The DNA Journey

Raphael Flechtner2020-11-16T20:18:37+00:00March 10th, 2018|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|

With its video The DNA Journey, which has been viewed more than 17 million times, the flight comparison site Momondo landed a widely noticed and controversial viral hit in the summer of 2016. Produced in cooperation with the family research platform AncestryDNA and published on various video [...]

’Do not gender me!'

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’Do not gender me!'

Raphael Flechtner2020-11-16T19:41:51+00:00February 25th, 2018|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|Tags: demonstration, mobilisation video, right-wing populism|

In 2015, the right-wing conservative weekly Junge Freiheit took the debate about the school curriculum plans of the Baden-Württemberg Red-Green (Social Democrat and Green Party) coalition government as an opportunity to launch a campaign against the so-called ‘ideology of gender mainstreaming’. Just as Junge Freiheit is part [...]

WELCOME TO THE ISLAMIC STATE OF GERMANY – BOOK YOUR TRIP NOW!

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WELCOME TO THE ISLAMIC STATE OF GERMANY – BOOK YOUR TRIP NOW!

Rebecca Scharlach2020-10-15T14:40:57+00:00November 22nd, 2017|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|

Shortly before the US presidential elections in 2016, the conservative lobby organisation Secure America Now invited you to take part in an imaginary journey into the horror vision of an ‘Islamised Germany’. At the end of 2016, the video Welcome to the Islamic State of Germany sent [...]

Search racism. Find truth.

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Search racism. Find truth.

Rebecca Scharlach2020-10-15T14:59:47+00:00November 22nd, 2017|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|

Using apparently subversive strategies, the video campaign of the ‘Refugees Welcome’ initiative confronts viewers of xenophobic videos with opposing perspectives and thus calls for more tolerance – albeit with dubious success. During the peak phase of the so-called ‘European refugee crisis’, the ‘Flüchtlinge Willkommen’ (‘Refugees Welcome’) initiative, [...]

Omran in the ruins of Aleppo

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Omran in the ruins of Aleppo

Gastautor2019-07-31T20:45:25+00:00June 12th, 2017|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|Tags: Aleppo, authenticity effect, Syria, visual evidence|

The video of little Omran, a Syrian boy who received medical care following a bomb attack in Aleppo, became an international media symbol by showing the suffering of the Syrian people during the raging civil war. […]

Surveillance Chess

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Surveillance Chess

Gastautor2019-07-31T20:40:24+00:00May 17th, 2017|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|Tags: Artivism, disruptive, London, media guerilla|

Swiss media activists “Bitnik” use a jamming transmitter to hijack security cameras in the London Underground and invite the security personnel to a game chess on their screens. This form of guerrilla artivism skilfully reverses the imbalance of power between those being observed and those doing the observing. […]

80 Years Apart

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80 Years Apart

Gastautor2019-07-31T20:43:26+00:00April 11th, 2017|Categories: Videos in Close-Up|Tags: asylum policy, #RefugeesWelcome, Charity & NGO, Syria, UNICEF|

“We’re alive, we’re the lucky ones” – UNICEF’s campaign for solidarity with child refugees highlights the shared stories of Harry and Ahmed, and in doing so reminds us of the millions of tragic fates during the great European trauma of the 20th century. […]