Hammer&Spiegel(Mirror)
A film from the theatre.
Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin/Germany | Film
Long ago Karl Marx said that art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. In the land of Hammer&Spiegel (Hammer&Mirror) we agree with this statement—or at least most of us do. The year is 2321, and there are personal interconnections and clashes in our ranks. > More
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POST-PRODUCTION
Vaba Lava, Tallinn/Estonia

The team of Vaba Lava will join us for a round of POST-PRODUCTION. > More
A different kind of white
Vaba Lava, Tallinn/Estonia | Performance

A young man from Estonia goes to Senegal. Escaping to the future has always been his credo, and now here he is, an actor working in Senegal on his next show. Meeting a local, something happens that makes him ask himself difficult questions about one layer of his identity, and he realizes he cannot escape. As a cliché, whiteness is usually conflated with the West. But what if you only recently rejoined the West and were born poor and unsexy in the East? Does white privilege apply to you? Of course it does, objectively, but your subjective inner feeling might insist that there are shades and nuances with regard to class and history. White supremacy can fuck itself, but so can smug privilege that doesn’t remember the price of milk. > More