Flags emphasize national sovereignty and mark territorial claims. Flags provide national identity and proclaim loyalties. A programme of experimental film and video shows the agency of flags as expression of territorial power politics, post-colonial conditions, but also of individual forms of resistance.
Fr. 27.01.2023, 20:00 Uhr im CITY 46, kuratiert und eingeführt von Christine Rüffert | Universit?t Bremen
The programme accompanies the exhibition ?What is the Proper Way to display a Flag?? at Museum Weserburg, Bremen
The films:
| Leighton Pierce | Red Shovel | USA 1992 | 8:00
| Ben Russell | Let us persevere in what we have resolved before we forget | USA, FRA, Vanuatu 2013 | 20:00
| John Smith | Flag Mountain | UK 2010 | 8:00
| Hito Steyerl | November | AT/D 2004 | 25:00
| Martin Creed | Border Control | UK 2015 | 0:49