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Following Hannah Arendt's remarks on refugee camps as spaces of 'worldlessness', I examine how, in films on European asylum facilities, systemic violence 'makes itself known' in images of nature. Nature separates and isolates ("La Forteresse", "Forst"), it constitutes a sphere of domination and control ("View from Above"), and it functions directly as a murder weapon ("Purple Sea"). Nature, in these films, indicates the Outside within, haunted by the latent and ghostly presence of systemic violence.
Im Anschluss an eine queer-theoretische reparative Perspektive betrachte ich lustvolle Strategien des Überlebens in zwei Film- bzw. Videoarbeiten. Ming Wongs "Lerne deutsch mit Petra von Kant" (2007) und Cana Bilir-Meiers "This Makes Me Want to Predict the Past" (2019) erzeugen unvorhergesehene, lebenserhaltende und "transhistorische Beziehungen". Beide respektieren dabei die mediale Lücke im Zugriff auf die Vergangenheit.