Filmvorführung: "Caution Colonialism" und "What Remains Unspoken" 🎬

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Organized by students of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne as part of the Student Symposium "Bursting the Bubble of Academia", this screening is open to anyone interested!

The screening includes a discussion/Q&A with the filmmakers Elisa Erpenbeck and Paulina Guskowski.

About the films:

In "Caution Colonialism" the young OvaHerero activist Ningiree Kauvee is travelling from Otjiwarongo, Namibia, to Göttingen, a city whose colonial past has an impact on the present. Her mission: to uncover the invisible traces of colonial legacy. The film accompanies Ningiree as she prepares intensively for a performative city tour, which is intended to bring the hidden to light. She visits the Anthropological collection of the University of Göttingen, which contains human remains from Namibia, as well as the former colonial school in Witzenhausen. She recognises the inequalities at the
historical sites such as the memorials and graves of the colonial profiteers: here the
perpetrators are honoured while the victims, the OvaHerero and Nama, remain nameless.
Ningiree's city tour through Göttingen becomes an act of self-empowerment.

In "What Remains Unspoken" the two Namibians Nessy and Beurencia offer insights into Namibia's culture of remembrance by reflecting on their visit to the town Luderitz. They looked at two sites steeped in Namibia's colonial history: Kolmanskop and Shark Island.
Kolmanskop is an abandoned village where German colonisers used to control the mining of diamonds. Today, it is a popular tourist destination, known for its hauntingly beautiful photo motives but offering little acknowledgement of its exploitative past. Shark Island was the site of a concentration camp during the German genocide on the OvaHerero, the Nama and other affected groups. Today the site is used as a camping ground for tourists, with memorials prioritising the German settlers over the thousands of genocide victims on the ground.
Through their reflections, Nessy and Beurencia share their personal impressions of these spaces and discuss the narratives that dominate them. Which stories are being told? What is remembered? And what is forgotten?

The room "Neuer Senatssaal" is located in the main building of the University of Cologne.