Lichtblick-Kino

curator statement:

We, the migrants, are not wanderers in foreign lands; we are the living archives of erased histories. Our presence disrupts the carefully constructed illusion that these lands were ever made for just one kind of person. In Germany, where the far right rises and hate speech poisons the air, we, the migrants, emphasize the urgency of delving into the colonial past to understand its present relevance so that we can weave alternative futures.

“With whose blood were my eyes crafted?” This question by Donna Haraway guides us to reflect on the implicit (and explicit) violences in our own practices of visualization, questioning the myth of objective, neutral knowledge built on silenced voices. Our eyes may be heirs to a colonial gaze, yet they hold the potential to carry disobedient perspectives – ones that transcend the dichotomies designed to subordinate our bodies.

The selected short films explore the colonial past and present to unveil the roots of racist, discriminatory, and anti-gender discourses still alive today. They reflect on how these narratives shape us as migrants in this city, and how we can rise against them.

Florencia Bellone