Plutopia
Plutopia is influenced by the French sociologist Jacques Ellul’s discourse on ‘technique’ – defined as “all refined methods that impose absolute efficiency in every human field of activity” in his seminal work ‘The Technological Society’ (1964). The video contains musings by Ellul in which he outlines the history of technique and technology and its consequences […]
RESISTERS
In this multilayered documentary addressed to the Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, the filmmaker’s Jewish flaneuse reflects on Berlin’s history of revolution and resistance to fascism, and the dangerous growth of the nationalist AfD political party. Poetic vignettes addressed to historic resisters to fascism memorialised in Stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) are interweaved with stills, archive, interviews and […]
Breathing Still 2020
Part activist film, part essay film, a compelling portrait of Berlin as the right-wing nationalist party, the AfD wins seats in Parliament for the first time. Weaving together voice-over, stills, archive and found footage, Daniels’ flaneuse, a follower of the Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, who was assassinated by fascists nearly a century ago, explores Berlin’s […]