Berliner filmmaker Marco Wilms’ documentary Art War follows the lives of Egyptian artists in the wake of Arab Spring.
In a society whose collective needs include paying honour to fallen martyrs and fellow activists, an explosion of creativity emerged; for instance, the radical anti-Islamic feminist blogger Aalia, whose naked self-portraits, posted online, became a motif of the cultural dissent boiling over in Egypt’s emerging and radicalised youth culture.
Wilms shows how the artists not only utilised but instrumentalised art as a transcendental and effective weapon in the fight for their unfinished revolution.
We will be providing customary refreshments and welcoming Wilms for a post-screening Q&A, as well as other special guests for a discussion on Egypt since the revolution.
EXBLICKS: ART WAR, May 20, 20:00 | Lichtblick Kino, Kastanienallee 77, Prenzlauer Berg