Between two exhibitions, the art museum in Ravensburg opens its doors and invites you to the UNDER CONSTRUCTION series. A music-related film will be presented by Dr Cornelia Lund (fluctuating images, Berlin) followed by a DJ set by DJ Jaywalk (aka Prof Dr Holger Lund, DHBW Ravensburg/Global Pop First Wave, Berlin) und Martin Georgi (Seismographic Records, Stuttgart). The series focuses on more experimental film formats beyond the hegemonic, Western-centered cinema and music mainstream.
The thourth film presented in the series is “Beats of the Antonov” (Directed by Hajooj Kuka, 2014, 68min, Sudan/South Africa). Sudan has been in an almost constant state of civil war since it achieved independence in 1956, and it split into a pair of sovereign states in 2011. Beats of the Antonov explores how music binds a community together, offering hope and a common identity for refugees engaged in a fierce battle to protect cultural traditions and heritage from those trying to obliterate them.
With Beats of the Antonov, director Hajooj Kuka provides an inspiring account of how cultural heritage and creative traditions can defy the indignity of displacement. With inspiring lucidity, Kuka threads together the voices — speaking and singing — of militants, social workers, intellectuals, and other everyday folk, to reverse conventional representations of victimhood and reveal an alternative narrative of tenacity and resilience.
The DJ set by Martin Georgi and Holger Lund takes us to Sudan, but also to neighboring or nearby countries such as Ethiopia and Nigeria. This opens up a range that contextualizes the special spiritual quality of rootsbased Sudanese music between folk and pop with Ethiopian jazz and Nigerian disco and reggae.
Curated by Cornelia Lund and Holger Lund, fluctuating images.
