The times when the western white society had the exclusive access to cinema as a means of representing the world and telling stories have come to an end some decades ago. Since then “the Others” took the cameras and claimed this right for themselves and started to experiment with new narratives and aesthetics. New and inspiring perspectives and projects are being organized in different places of the world, multiplying images and defying mainstream cinema. filmArche and Draufsicht are building a space for connections and exchange between initiatives and filmmakers that may be located far apart, but that respond to the same challenge: How can we tell stories that contribute to the re-imagining of this world? How can we dispute the representation of the world and expand the horizons of the possible?
This year 25 filmmakers and activists from all over the world are coming to Berlin to work for two weeks on their personal film projects, exchange experiences and discuss the responsibility and possibilities of political films in a global context.
Representation matters and is a subject of dispute, so Utopia Summer School brings together people and communities that are doing this: sex workers, activists for indigenous and human rights, self-organized schools and collectives from the global south. They all share their questions and answers to the challenge and dispute of self-representation.
The Utopia Summer School is closing on September 7th with an exhibition and party, to share with the public the results of two weeks of coming and working together. So save the date September 7th from 3 p.m. in the filmArche Berlin (Lahnstraße 25, 12055 Berlin).
