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 [...]
Heinz Nigg and his “Rebel Video” will be touring the US, Canada and Europe in the coming months. The book launch tour with screenings and discussions starts today, 12.03, at the California University of the Arts in San Francisco. […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sorry, this entry is only available in German. Im kommenden April hält das Langzeitprojekt »Geschichte des dokumentarischen Films in Deutschland 1945-2005« einen Workshop, der sich mit kritischer und alternativer Videoarbeit in Ost-und Westdeutschland befassen soll. Im Fokus stehen Berliner Mediengruppen aus den 1970er und 80er Jahren. Mit dem Workshop will das DFG-geförderte Forschungsprojekt [...]
Sorry, this entry is only available in German. Rückschau auf die Tagung "Angst machen" im Einstein Forum Welche Faktoren müssen zusammenwirken, damit sich ein allgemeines Klima der Angst verbreitet? Welche gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Veränderungen haben es gefördert? Welche Rolle spielen alte und neue Medien? Gibt es Angstunternehmer, die politisches und ökonomisches Kapital aus der Angst [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
After touring Europe in a form of a film caravan, the International Activist Documentary Film Festival “Mov(i)e Activism” will have its first season’s finale in Berlin. Thursday, July Thu 13-15th, 20:00, Spreefeld Bootshaus Berlin […]
IMAGE TESTIMONIES – WITNESSING IN TIMES OF SOCIAL MEDIA International Symposium hosted by the Collaborative Research Center “Affective Societies” Project B01 “Affective Dynamics of Images in the Era of Social Media” Free University Berlin, July 13-15, 2017 Deadline for proposals: January 16, 2017 […]
