Embracing Digital: A Curator's View

Curator and head of East Asian and Islamic Art Collection Wibke Schrape takes us behind the scenes of the MK&G Hamburg and shares her digital approach regarding her work and the collection she is taking care of.

The Last Poem Stefan Buchwald Wanted to write

A poet who lives in Berlin in a voluntary isolation, in addition to the quarantine imposed due to the spread of the Corona epidemic. Stefan Buchwald wants to write a poem that will change the world.

Banias: The Beginnings

The Revolution story of the city of Banias (Syria), how did it start, and how did it end.

Chronolog Qamshli

The Revolution story of the city of Qamshli (Syria), how did it start, and how did it go on.

Clothesline

About Syrian’s good and nice memory. What do they remember from their Syria? Childhood, cities, games… etc. The movie is following the small details in Syrians old life and comparing it, in indirect way, with their new life.

Ya Hoo

Rap meets spoken poetry and oriental-Islamic recitation another name of the song could be "dialouge with Allah".

Damascene Features

A Damascene woman's Features changing through three years of revolution, Marriage, divorce, hiding, refuge, harassment and living in a new country.

Exile

About absence from ones own homeland, house, and sweetheart among other things. Exile in displacement, asylum and camps is only one part of absence. Internal absence during displacement is a prison-like exile which is much darker and more horrid than physical absence.

Princes of bees

This film was shot by the martyr Bassel Shahdeh in February of 2012 in the Syrian capital, Damascus. And he did not finish it. The film was finished by Syrian director Dellair Youssef at the end of 2013.

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Maybe you want to turn a hoYou could join a revolution to change your own life, not necessary to change the regime. bby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.

Tow houses and story

Comparison between the architecture of old Damascene houses and new construction.