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For The Nth Degree, Swedish artist Emanuel Almborg initiated an exchange between young people from Hackney, London, and Mid Powys, Wales. Through theater workshops inspired by Konstantin Stanislavski’s method of acting, they developed a play that connects two historical moments: the Rebecca Riots, a peasant revolt against privately owned toll gates and enclosure of the commons in 1840s Wales, and the more recent London riots of 2011. The exchange between the two groups fostered an understanding of the riots, framed by attendant issues like race, class, and inequality.

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In República (Republic), a captivating short fiction written, directed, and performed by Grace Passô, a house becomes a strange theatre. It is the pandemic house during the 2020 COVID-19 quarantine. Shot entirely in domestic space, located in São Paulo’s downtown neighbourhood República, the film alludes to the lived experience of social distance and isolation, and to the possibilty of making something "public" again—in a country going through an ethical crisis which is further enforced by the necropolitics of its colonialist government.

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Die vergangenen Zukünfte (Past Futures) is a political and poetic reflection on the nature and effects of revolutions. An exemplary starting point for this essayistic film is the March Revolution of 1848 in Vienna. What remains of a revolution? When is it considered to have failed and when and how are its achievements manifested? Johannes Gierlinger combines historical struggles with today's forms of resistance and reflects on how the practice of collective memory inscribes itself in the present of a city and the actions of its residents.

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This Place is Every Place consists of a staged dialogue between two Swedish women of Middle Eastern origin. The Arab spring is a backdrop for their conversation, which takes place in the suburb of Tensta in Stockholm, and the film puts forward a connection between the global protest movements and the May 2013 riots that emerged in Husby, another northern suburb of Stockholm mainly inhabited by ethnic minority groups. This Place is Every Place studies the relationship between political and personal crises, pointing to a widespread lost faith in alternative social organization. 

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© Claudia González