13.04.2019 - 07.07.2019
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Borjana Ventzislavova, And the Sky Clears Up (MAGIC RESISTANCE), 2018, filmstill
Photo: Courtesy of the artist & Bildrecht
Photo: Courtesy of the artist & Bildrecht
In Borjana Ventzislavova’s film, And the Sky Clears Up (MAGIC RESISTANCE), five female protagonists perform magic spells in Vienna, mostly in sites renowned for events from the Nazi period. By documenting these different processes (and perhaps thus magnifying them), the film altogether acts as a plea for conjuring resistance to the current right-wing populism in the Western Hemisphere. The depicted individual ceremonies, none of which arise from dogmatism nor official religions, demonstrate the protagonists’ appeal to healing, empowerment and solidarity as symbolic and even actual political action.
With: Songül Boyraz, Renée Gadsden, Esra Emine Demir, Maruša Sagadin, Claudia Slanar
Camera: Hannes Böck
Sound: Kai Maier-Rothe
Text: Ovid Pop
Voice over: Susanne Schuda
Produced in the frame of:
Exiled Gaze | Der exilierte Blick
Borjana Ventzislavova (*1976, Sofia) lives and works in Vienna. www.borjana.net
