Art War
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Art War |
| Original title | Art War |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language |
Arabic English German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marco Wilms |
| script | Marco Wilms |
| production |
Marlen Burghardt Marco Wilms |
| music |
Ramy Essam Bosaina and Wetrobots Tonbüro Berlin |
| camera | Marco Wilms Abdelrhman Zin Eldin Emanuele Ira Bashir Mohamed Wagih Ali Khaled |
| cut | Stephan Talneau |
Art War is a German documentary by Marco Wilms from 2013 about the emergence of graffiti , street art and music as a means of expression after the fall of Husni Mubarak and during the Arab Spring .
action
The documentary filmmaker Marco Wilms accompanied the musician Ramy Essam , as well as the electropop singer Bosaina and the young artists Mohamad Fahmy , also known as Gesamter , Ammar Abo Bakr , Mohamed Khaled , Alaa Awad and the German-Egyptian political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad for two years . The film shows how the young artists use their art as a weapon, as an expression of their protest and as a reminder of the martyrs of the protests, such as the portraits on Mohamed-Mahmoud-Straße .
criticism
“Creativity almost exploded in many quarters of Cairo and Luxor after the fall of Mubarak in spring 2011. Marco Wilms captures this lively subculture in feverish images. The filmmaker shows art as a means of the oppressed in the fight against the military council and as a driving force to advance the revolution, which is far from complete. 'Art War': recommendable. "
“'Art War' is a godsend in its fatalistic precision. Marco Wilms holds the seismograph directly in the seething center of the unrest. He demonstrates what previously seemed only abstractly understandable: In Egypt, all dissident groups are surrounded by enemies. The regime killed the demonstrators, the Muslim Brotherhood hunted down the artists, the military butchered the Muslim Brotherhood, and the artists cheered the military. In the graffiti on the walls of the city you can see the trauma of a whole generation. "
Awards and nominations
- 2013: Special mention of the DOK Leipzig
- 2013: Prix Télérama Award of the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels
Web links
- Art War in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Art War's official Facebook page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Albrecht: "The poetic image of the revolution". Deutschlandfunk, January 16, 2014, accessed on March 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Swantje Karich: Our pictures paint over your actions. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, January 22, 2014, accessed on March 4, 2014 .