In the organizer's words:
Film screening, curated menu by Gosia Lehmann and the directors of the film in conversation with சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah)
About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks is a 21st century decolonial fable that juxtaposes two animals that share a similar fate but could not be more different.
Places and times merge, identities are excluded; a non-anthropocentric perspective reflects on the lives of the protagonists who have been forced to migrate and the recurring patterns of colonialism. The story begins with a "great voyage of discovery" that poetically illustrates how the resulting, mostly one-sided trade relations continue to shape all of our lives today. The story continues to manifest itself and is embodied in this film by living animals. Peacocks living on Peacock Island outside Berlin and hippos living between Bogotá and Medellín, both mascots of former rulers, represent our complex (and sometimes absurd) relationship with the past and present and our inability to come to terms with it.
About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks explores the connections between humans, nature and history. It is a cinematic journey of discovery in search of a new narrative.
The screening will be followed by a discussion between the filmmakers Johannes Förster and Elkin Calderón Guevara and சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா . சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah) is an author and political geographer. His*her writings focus on issues of statelessness, displacement and colonial modernity, viewed from the perspective of infrastructure, logistics and built culture. After years of political work in the field of asylum seeker protection and the prosecution of genocides, வரதராஜா first book an alle Orte, die hinter uns liegen was published by Hanser Verlag in 2022. The second volume with conversations with the artist Moshtari Hilal, Hierarchies of Solidarity, was published by Wirklichkeit Books in November 2024.
About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks
by Johannes Förster and Elkin Calderón Guevara
28'30''
Germany, Colombia, 2024
German and Spanish with English subtitles
Admission: 19:00
Dinner: 19:30
Film starts: 20:30 (until approx. 22:30)
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