Flags emphasize national sovereignty  and mark territorial claims. Flags provide national identity and proclaim loyalties. A programme of experimental film and video shows the agency of flags as expression of territorial power politics, post-colonial conditions, but also of individual forms of resistance. 

Fr. 27.01.2023, 20:00 Uhr im CITY 46, kuratiert und eingeführt von Christine Rüffert | Universität Bremen

The programme accompanies the exhibition »What is the Proper Way to display a Flag?« at Museum Weserburg, Bremen

The films:

   | Leighton Pierce | Red Shovel | USA 1992 | 8:00
   | Ben Russell | Let us persevere in what we have resolved before we forget | USA, FRA, Vanuatu 2013 | 20:00
   | John Smith | Flag Mountain | UK 2010 | 8:00
   | Hito Steyerl | November | AT/D 2004 | 25:00
   | Martin Creed | Border Control | UK 2015 | 0:49