May 31–Jun 3, 2012
Berlin Documentary Forum 2
new practices across disciplines
Exhibition, live performance, lecture, film, talk
May 31–Jun 3, 2012
The second Berlin Documentary Forum sets out to present new understandings of documentary in a program specially devised by international artists, filmmakers, cultural historians and theoretists.
The project seeks to explore the documentary as an art form capable of constructing and reshaping realities and histories. Encompassing cultural studies, philosophy, and diverse artistic practices, the festival accentuates the critical potential of documentary work and distinguishes it from today’s excessive production and distribution of visual documents.
New documentary practices are cross-disciplinary, dialectical and above all performative, regarding documentary as the staging of particular relationships between documents, authors and spectators.
A group exhibition of contemporary art entitled A Blind Spot complements the four days of events at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
