Skip Norman’s “On Africa”
Mousonturm Saal
Keynote
- 15.12.2021, 7.30 p.m.solidarity pricing system (you choose): € 5 / € 10 / € 20 / € 30
Screening and Talk
with Volker Pantenburg, Sónia Vaz Borges, Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, Madeleine Bernstorff, Tom Holert
Skip Norman shot ‘On Africa’ after graduating from the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). On the level of the image, we see tracking shots through West Berlin, information detailing the economic gains of colonialist exploitations, and photographs from West Africa, while the soundtrack shares facts about the continent’s conquest and decolonization. As Norman himself put it: “The starting point is the relationship between Europe’s prosperity and Africa’s poverty; Europe’s destruction of societies and cultures, and the simultaneous use of Christianity and racial theories as justification for a massive exploitation of the colonized.” ‘On Africa’ was first shown in 1970 and then broadcast on television by WDR in 1972. In 2020, the Harun Farocki Institut was able to digitize a 16mm print from the archive at the WDR.
In Collaboration with the Harun Farocki Institut.
More information on 2021.visibleevidence.org
Duration: 90 min.
From 25.11.2021 applies according to the current Coronavirus Protection Ordinance: This event will take place under 2G rules. A valid vaccinated or convalescent status must be presented for admission, including an official photo ID. Partial occupancy in the event room. Wearing a medical mask (FFP2 mask, makeshift surgical mask) is mandatory everywhere, including at the seating area.