MARIENWALDEN: Notes, Sketches, Diaries
The short film was created during a workshop at the IB refugee shelter in Berlin Marienfelde under the direction of the group rampe:aktion. rampe:aktion has been organizing a film club with young people there since 2022. During the workshop, excerpts from Mekas' film diary served as inspiration for the development of their own notes, drawings, cell phone videos and joint filming. The history of the Marienfelde refugee shelter, which used to serve as emergency accommodation for GDR migrants before, was also incorporated into the production of the short film as reference spaces.
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Biography
rampe:aktion is an association of Berlin-based artists, cultural practitioners and social workers. The group was founded in 2019 by Christian Diaz Orejarena, Lara Dade, Christian Limber and Miriam Trostorf. With different social and professional backgrounds, the collective collaborates on a socially motivated and action-based practice that lives at the interface between visual arts, social work and film.
In cooperation with various art and cultural venues, rampe:aktion realizes projects that open up collective creative spaces, experiments with collaborative film practice and encourages young people to create. In actions and workshops, the aim is to open up access to cultural institutions for different people. In an interdisciplinary approach, rampe:aktion searches for unconventional aesthetics and social interaction.
Details
Directed by: rampe:aktion
Country: Germany
Language: German
Version: VOSC
Metodology
As most of the films of rampe:aktion, "Marienwalden – Notes, Diaries, Sketches" was created during a workshop with a group of young people. The collective’s approach is always collaborative and open. What interests the group is film as a social practice, and using social processes as the subject of films. Through joint artistic activity, rampe:aktion creates a social togetherness. It is effective, spontaneous and chaotic and therefore interesting for the group.
In its practice, rampe:aktion gives space to the unpredictable and gives meaning to the non-conformist and the doubtful. Relationship based work is at the heart of their artistic practice, which is primarily oriented towards the needs and wishes of the people with whom rampe:aktion works. These are often young people whose lives in Germany are characterized by discrimination and systemic racism. Through creative processes, they are encouraged to take a stand and appropriate spaces of art and culture. rampe:aktion is determined to work with and not for people. By playing with creative means, social practice itself becomes an artistic form.