• Directed by Dmitry Zakharov
• Country of Origin Germany

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Political conflicts and arguments are deadlocked and often represent personal interests, economic superiority, and a gain of power rather than the interests of the people and the environment.

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The problems of globalization demand the rejection of a misinterpreted concept of individualism. They demand a rethinking of our stuck concepts and ideologies that led us to this self-scourging, almost self-destructive mindset that has replaced the essence of our existence.

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What happens when we create a momentum which silences politics, economics, and the ego of each individual? A deliberate silence of each individual as well as a collective silence of all human beings as an expression for a unified system.

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How would we encounter ourselves in such a space and how would we encounter our environment? Would we be able to reform society with this deliberate silence? If you blot out sound and sense, what would you hear?

• Directed by Josephin Boettger
• Country of Origin Germany

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A city builds itself. Demolition follows construction follows demolition. In "Topiaskop“ dimensions and relations are dissolved, the certainty of place and time is dismantled: the concrete city of Hamburg becomes the site of an absurd tale of growth.

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Director Biography - Josephin Boettger

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Josephin Böttger is a video artist who lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. In her early career, she produced various short films such as experimental and drawn-animation works, shown at international film festivals. Since receiving her diploma at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg 2002, she has worked on multi-channel video installations and single-channel videos, shown at international exhibitions and projections in public spaces. Her work examines the metamorphosis, chronology, and aesthetics of urban space.