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Colonial voyeurism revisited

Nina Trige Andersen / February 16, 2019

COLONIALISM: It is hard to tell if the archival documentary African Mirror is a rehabilitation of a colonial mind, a critique of colonialism or a piece of essayistic nostalgia over the colonial gaze. Probably it is a mix, and as such, nothing new.

Africa, African, African Mirror, Berlinale, Cameroon, colonial, colonialism, colonisers, diaries, exoticness, exploitation, filmmaker, letters, Mischa Hedinger, photographer, post-colonial, primitivism, public speaker, rehabilitation, René Gardi, representation, self-assertion, Simone Baumann, Swiss, Switzerland, Thessaloniki, tourism, travel writer, Urs Augstburger, vogue, voyeurism

In the hallway of the Yugoslav past

Carmen Gray / March 7, 2018

Hotel Jugoslavija appears as a mirror image of the Yugoslav glory and downfall, symbolised by the once grand and luxurious hotel in the capital of a country that ceased to exist.

Adriatic Sea, Arkan, Balkan, Belgrade, Benjamin Poumey, Berlin International Film Festival, brotherhood, Brutalist, buildings, capitalism, communist, Danube, East-West, embargoe, embargoes, enthusiasm, former Yugoslavia, French TV, hallway, Hotel Jugoslavija, iPhone, iPhone store, Jugoslavija, letters, Luc Besson, luxurious, modernism, monuments, moscow, nationalism, NATO, NATO bombardment, Nicolas Wagnières, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Nixon, sectarianism, Serbian, socialism, Swiss, Tito, Tito’s funeral, war, Willy Brandt, World War II, Yugoslav era, Yugoslavia, Zagreb, Željko Ražnatović

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