marina maschek

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Within our life (times) (2024)



Video, Audio, Collage



 Within our life (times) is an experimental short documentary attempting to archive a student protest camp in solidarity with Palestine. Using a miniature reconstruction of the camp in the form of a peep box as its central arena, the documentary focuses on the relationships between the individual activists who lived together in the camp. The documentary highlights the debates and conflicts within the camp – in particular between the students and the Palestinians – as a central part of the protest.

Mixing real-life footage and five interviews with the collage-like reconstruction of the camp, it plays with the missing images as well as the particularity of the space of the camp. It looks at the conflicts and internal debates of the camp as an essential element of understanding the protest camp as a place that experiments with an alternative form of living together. Part of the activism becomes bringing these conflicts into public space, following Mouffes approach of an agonistic space (Chantal Mouffe, Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces, 2007).

Including the filmmaker as both a participant of the camp and the narrator of the documentary, it gives the audience an insight into the questions and negotiations occurring during the protest camp.