The continuity of loneliness
TRAUMA: Unearth the subtle connections between personal lives and external conflicts, as ‘The Diagonal Force’ leads you towards Hannah Arendt’s celebration of human capacity.
Hannah Arendt
Jean-Luc Godard: Death was waiting
CINEMA: Four films and two books – can they capture something about this newly dead legend of cinema? Let me try, especially with Godard’s intellectual autobiography and two new films about him.
A treacherous saviour
INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s staging of himself has been successful enough to keep him at the helm for years. But the role models for his ruling BJP party were inspired by German and Italian fascism.
In the direction of the totalitarian
PRE-FASCISM: Written for society «between Hitler and Stalin», Timothy Snyder’s book lies between patriotic obedience and political disobedience.
The relationship between art and the political
ART: Though many of today’s patrons use art as a giant advertising pillar, what can art still do when politicians lie?
The masses and the people
PSYCHOLOGY: Is it possible to understand why the majority choose a leader or a slave-like existence?
A time for everything and nothing
When our faith in grand narratives erodes as our lives become increasingly hectic, time itself loses its direction and meaning.
A thought-provoking, peculiar exploration of nature
ECOLOGY: A magnificent documentary about the natural origins of what we consider to be man-made and the connection between man and nature.
An intimate portrayal of the last men of Aleppo
Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Last Men in Aleppo will have its European premiere at the March opening film of Copenhagen’s CPH:DOX.
The necessity of role models
BIOGRAPHY: We can all learn something about consideration and honesty by James Baldwin.
Hannah Arendt as a refugee
Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the existential impossibility of escape are more relevant than ever, and make up the basic premise in a new documentary film about the philosopher, who herself fled to Paris at a time of political polarisation.