In Contact: The Politics of Moving Bodies
In Contact: The Politics of Moving Bodies
- Date
- Mar 2nd 2021
- With
- Welket Bungué moderated by Natascha Noack
The incursion of a new digital reality into our physical lives pushes us to rethink the relationship to our bodies and the encounters with those of others. In this session director and actor Welket Bungué, whose latest work Mudança is part of this year's Forum Expanded, interacts with Natascha Noack, traveller between the realms of dance, movement, language and film. In a physically, yet not socially distanced meeting they will share clips from Welket's films and performances in order to explore a body of work in multiple roles, deeply rooted in the geographical and political triangle of Portugal, Brazil and Guinea Bissau. Questions revolving around the impact of the performing body in social-political dynamics, the deliberations attached to representations of black bodies and the (im)possibility of unencumbered movement will fuel the understanding of Welket's Self Portraying Cinema.
Welket Bungué
Welket Bungué is an actor and director born in Guinea-Bissau and now based in Berlin. He is a member of the Portuguese Film Academy and the Deutsche Filmakademie. His films have been screened internationally at festivals such as Africlap, Zanzibar International Film Festival, Afrikamera and DocLisboa. He directed the short films I AM NOT PILATUS, ARRIAGA and BASTIEN. He played Franz Biberkopf in BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, screened at the 2020 Berlinale.
Natascha Noack
Natascha Noack researches the interfaces between movement, language, film and music. She studied film, dance and bodywork in Berlin, Bielefeld and Paris before deepening her knowledge of traditional art forms in Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso. In addition to her work as a performer, choreographer and lecturer in dance and rhythm, she translates film and performance theory, conceives site-specific and thematic movement interventions and works as a voice-over artist. She is a film curator and member of the selection committee of Generation, a section of the Berlin International Film Festival.