Place of History
With Peggy Ahwesh, Aleksandar Ilić, Johannes Gierlinger and Wang Yuyan
On Friday 4 November the screening is followed by a conversation with Johannes Gierlinger
Remember “the end of history”? US political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s infamous observation in response to the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s proved to be erroneous in many ways. The universalisation of the supposedly victorious Western liberal democracy has been unmasked as a deeply colonialist project.
More recently, civil and human rights achieved through decades of social struggle have been contested by right-wing movements, autocratic governments and neoconservative jurisdiction on the rise. History is a question of perspective; it is continuously produced, it is forgotten or lives on, undigested, always ready to violently re-emerge. This challenging selection of films examines the role language and images play in times of social, political and economic polarisation and digs into the volatile nature of the past as much as it glimpses into new representations of the world.
What else is on today?
See the Friday and Saturday timetables to visit the other programmes with your Festival Pass (5-days) or Day Pass (1-day). With the passes you can also visit the festival exhibition The Curse of Smooth Operations at the IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] and Steenweg 26. For more information on the festival tickets please see here