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Kristina Paustian

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Kristina Paustian (*Omsk, RU) studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. She examines cultural anthropological and socio-political topics in her works. In cinematic images she focusses in particular on the themes of times of upheaval and technical utopias. Her films are characterized by a strong visual signature and her video works are often executed in plan sequences. For her first documentary ZAPLYV – Swimmers (2015, 77 min.) she received the ARTE Documentary Film Award for the best film and in 2017 she was part of the Berlinale Talents program. For the development of her debut feature film Velimir’s Prophecy she received the Elsa Neumann scholarship and the Robert Bosch grant. Her film essay Timekeeper is funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Paustian's work was exhibited at Les Rencontres Internationals, Arsenal Cinema Berlin, Visions du Réel, Torino Int. Film Festival, Odessa Biennale, Athens Biennale, Tashkent Biennale, and in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, and more.

Hamminkeln

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken, 
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt 
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist 
versteht, dass alles –  liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild 
wenn mensch findet sich selbst 
vor uralten baumrinden 
ein wesen schaut das andere an, 
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt 
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut 
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt; 
während die zeit bereits 
das leichentuch des menschen webt 
und der baum schaut den menschen an, 
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen 
nur hat der neue mensch 
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen

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Erdem Teper

Erdem Teper writes about everything that makes Erdem feel. Themes in his poetry are often taken from philosophical and religious contexts.

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