summer school udk berlin

From 19.08 until 23.08.24, I took part of the workshop “Visualising Territorial Digitalisation through Film” facilitated by the researcher Mirjana Mitrovic & documentary filmmaker Jan-Holger Hennies at the Summer School from the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK). The main aim of the workshop was to engage with urban space through a feminist and post-colonial perspective, especially by creating connections between digitalization, urban life and spatial processes.

Since I lived in Berlin from 2004 until 2018, it was a great opportunity to me to engage again with the city, which unfortunately due to a high-speed gentrification process has become a sort of New York from Europe. Anyway, the workshop enabled me to produce a short film (06:00 min) entitled “A Walk through a mutilated piece of THE WALL” in which I performed together with my artist friend Anete Colacioppo a camera-walk at the East Side Gallery. More precisely, a walk from the margins of the river Spree through a piece of wall which was removed in favor of the so-called UBER Platz to the UBER Arena. In other words, a walk through layers of history of a divided city (from 1961 to 1989) and in these days, of a vibrant, touristic and highly contested place.