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POLIS
In Cooperation with PENINSULA
Official program VORSPIEL | Transmediale & CTM
Opening: 24 January 2020 at 6 – 10pm
Exhibition Hours: 25 & 26 January at 1 – 7pm
Featuring
Alterazioni Video
Guerra e Pace
28′ 37″, 2018
War and Peace is a film that focuses on the phenomenon and the aesthetics of fake news. Today more than ever we are overwhelmed by a flood of news that comes from multiple channels and in this enormous chaos of information we don’t have the tools to recognize what is true and what is false, so every news loses its truth, up to the point that there are no more news but only fake news as Alexander Dugin states in this film, ‘In the post-modern era, facts are not important anymore but only how they are told matter; news that has a greater impact on people are those that win the war of the images we live every day. ‘ The protagonists of the film speak different languages and the use of subtitles becomes a tool to modify the sentences expressed by them, crippling the meaning as in the fake news mechanism.
Ambaradan
34′ 09″, 2015
Ambaradan is a movie shot by Alterazioni Video in Ethiopia. The artists imagine a near future, possible, where autonomous groups of indigenous people resist the advancement of modernization by reorganizing themselves into nomadic tribes, sufficiently technological and independent. A tribal culture imagined with the eyes of a 15-year-old “tumblr-dependent”, where symbols, hairstyles and languages of the net overlap with the traditional, ancestral and shamanic ones of the tribes of the Omo valley. The current situation foresees that these tribes, among the most spectacular and isolated of Africa, will be relocated in temporary estates away from the Omo River, on which the largest dam in Africa is about to be completed, an ambitious project of Italian origin that has the disadvantage of having to eradicate the natives from the Omo Valley. Alterazioni Video is part of this intricate situation and will try to create together with the natives new cinematic icons about an epic and possible future.
About PENINSULA
Peninsula is a non-profit association founded in 2014 by a group of mostly Italian artists, curators, musicians, art critics and designers who settled in the German capital during the past decade.
Peninsula is an interdisciplinary platform that presents exhibitions and projects in collaboration with Berlin’s international art scene. It is a meeting place and a multidisciplinary area of expression for all those who are interested in culture. It aims at creating a fertile ground for dialogue and confrontation on the contemporary moment while promoting one of the most interesting aspects of this cultural panorama: a cosmos in which the artistic realities of different countries around the world merge and expand.