Video-Vortrag: "Frauen im postkolonialen Kino" mit Rim Mejdi

Saddie Choua's video installation “Today is the shortest day of the year but somehow hanging around with you all day makes it seem like the longest. Perverse Decolonization.” is a playful and radical deconstruction of body images in cinema. With a method she calls “meta-documentary”, Choua brings together central works of film history: Chantal Akerman's feminist masterpiece ›Jeanne Dielman‹, Leni Riefenstahl's works of docu-exploitation and ›Black Girl‹ by Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène (which will also screen as part of this year's retrospective). The work puts us right in the middle of (film) history and creates space for reflection through sudden fissures and bursts of humor.


When and where: The installation can be visited at any time during the opening hours of the Festival-Lounge Heidelberg on all festival days. Languages: English and French. Completely barrier-free.



The lecture with the Moroccan film historian and curator Rim Mejdi on 15 November at 18:00 has unfortunately been cancelled.

Instead, there will be a discussion between art historian Alexandra Vinzenz and section curator Jan Philipp Possmann on 15 November at 18:00 on interculturality and othering in cinema using the example of Saddie Choua's installation. The discussion will be held in German.