Lichtblick-Kino

Curatorial Statement

In the face of the advance of horror in the world, the category of activism takes on the task of bringing forth images that still have the capacity to humanize us. How can we continue to believe in love, in friendship, in the world and in life after witnessing death turned into spectacle? How do we pause to look at life amid the global surge of hatred and fascism?

Perhaps this is the most eclectic selection in the short history of my curatorial work at Vierte Welle, but I believe in it. And I do so because I believe in the intention of the filmmakers to show us images that place us within territories, bodies, and realities. In the face of horror, intimate stories; in the face of indifference, a reminder of how much life is worth.

What could set us free? I invite us to listen, to look, to cry, and to play; to think about the body, injustice, war, childhood, migration, old age, precarity, and grief. Perhaps there lies the key to discussing what they are trying to normalize as truth.

If what is considered “normal” is to dehumanize ourselves, I would like to quote the beloved travesti activist Susy Shock, who tells us: “let others be the normal ones.” Who is left outside?

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