Venue:
French Cultural Center (Esteqlal High School), Kabul
Artistic direction:
Sandra Schäfer, Elfe Brandenburger
Artistic Programming:
Elfe Brandenburger, Diana Saqeb, Sandra Schäfer, Malek Shafi'i, Zara
Zandieh
Production Management:
DepArtment / Harriet Lesch
Print Coordination:
Tanja C. Horstmann
Editorial:
Harriet Lesch, Diana Saqeb, Sandra Schäfer, Malek Shafi'i, Zara Zandieh
Translations:
Karl Hoffmann, Mohammad Ali Karimi
Produced by mazefilm in co-operation with CACA-Kabul www.cacakabul.org
Seminar:
A cooperation between mazefilm, Armanshahr Foundation/Open Asia and CACA-Kabul
Curators
Sandra Schäfer (Berlin)
The filmmaker and curator of film programmes lives and works in Berlin.
She studied art, politics and sociology in Kassel, London and Karlsruhe.
She has made repeated visits to Kabul and Tehran since 2007 to work together
with Elfe Brandenburger on the documentary film Passing the Rainbow and
do research for the film festival Kabul/Teheran: 1979ff. She curated film
series on Afghanistan and Tehran in Belfast, Lüneburg, Karlsruhe, and
Berlin, and is co-editor of the book Kabul/ Teheran 1979ff: Filmlandschaften,
Städte unter Stress und Migration, published in 2006 by b_books, Berlin.
Videos, films and video installations (choice): The Making of a Demonstration
(2004), A Country's new Dawn (2001) and The invisible Services (2000).
Elfe Brandenburger (Berlin)
The filmmaker participated in the artists' group minimal club, which produced
theatre and video projects as well as books and magazines. Since 1985, she
has also been working as a film editor. Her video works, which were in part
produced in cooperation projects with Mano Wittmann, were shown at various
venues and in different contexts. She co-directed Passing the Rainbow which
evolved out of the collaboration with Sandra Schäfer on the short film
The Making of a Demonstration.
The SPLICE IN film programme evolved out of the collaboration of Sandra
Schäfer and Elfe Brandenburger on the film Passing the Rainbow
Diana Saqeb (Kabul)
The young Afghan filmmaker spent 26 years of her life in Tehran and has
now been living in Kabul again for a year. She is a member of the artists'
group CACA-Kabul. She had previously completed her studies to become a film
director at the art academy in Tehran.
Her first documentary film 25 Darsad ("25 Percent") deals with
five female members of parliament and their difficulties and efforts in
everyday life.
Malek Shafi'i (Kabul)
Born in 1974, Shafi'i has been making documentary films in and outside of
Afghanistan for the last 8 years. He completed his education at Baagh Ferdaws
Islamic Filmmaking Center in 1999 in Iran, and additionally attended a film
production course in the Netherlands.
Coming back to Afghanistan after 20 years of exile, it is five years he
has been living in Kabul, where he launched the Center of Art and Culture
of Afghanistan (CACA-KABUL). He also worked as a senior advisor for the
Radio Television Afghanistan.
He has made about 30 films; some of them received international film awards
from different countries. Up to the parliament (2005), Drought in Hazarajat
(2003), Pamir Territory (2003), End of the Earth (2001) are the filmmaker's
most renowned works.
Zara Zandieh (Berlin)
Zara Zandieh works as a video artist and filmmaker in Berlin. She was involved
in various art-projects questioning issues of feminism and gender, migration,
racism, and postcolonialism in Germany.
She has been living in London for two years and finished her MA in Gender,
Ethnic Studies and Sexualities at the University of East London in 2006.
Her recent films are: close-distance (2006), Such a strange time it is,
my dear… (2007), Meine Geschwister und Ich. ("My Siblings and
Me"; 2008)
In her work she traces ties between people and their (hi)stories by focusing
aspects of memory and history, inclusion and exclusion, space and belonging.
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funded by: The
German Federal Cultural Foundation
supported by:
Mama-Cash, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, GTZ, Federal
Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, DED, Heinrich Boell Foundation;
in cooperation with:
Afghan Films, French Cultural Center, Goethe-Institute Kabul, Armanshahr;
Donya-ye zan, Mosharekat-e siassi;
