Towards Memory
Towards Memory is a video and research project in collaboration with Namibian women who as children were sent to the former GDR during the Namibian struggle for independence and against apartheid, which started in 1979. After the fall of the Berlin Wall they were abruptly sent back to Namibia.
The video installation is based on archival research, video interviews, and contemporary commemorations of 25 years of independence and the genocide of the Herero and Nama. The project scrutinizes the entanglement of German and Namibian politics dealing with the consequences and (in-)visibilities of colonialism, genocide, displacement, and apartheid.
With
- Monica Nambelela
- Lucia Engombe
- Fatima Pedru
- Esther Utjiua Muinjange
Crew
Director | Katrin Winkler |
Cinematography | Katrin Winkler |
Editing | Katrin Winkler, Noam Gorbat |
Sound Design | Stefan Röselmair |
Sound | Kauna Hoabeb |
Producer | Katrin Winkler |
Produced by
Katrin Winkler
Additional information
Katrin Winkler
Katrin Winkler, born in 1983 in Starnberg, Germany, works in the fields of expanded cinema, critical research, video, and photography. A recurring theme in her practice is the invisibility and visibility of history and its entanglement with the contemporary moment. She was an assistant at the Katutura Community Art Center, Windhoek, Namibia. She holds a BFA in Photography from the Hochschule München, an MFA in Photography and Media with Allan Sekula from the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, and was a master student of Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Her work has been shown in exhibitions around the world.
Filmography
2009 Not Only A.; 13 min. 2011 To Protect and to Serve; 10 min., loop 2013 We don‘t just want a piece of the pie, we want the whole fucking bakery!; video installation, 28 min., loop 2016 Towards Memory
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017