At Roter Salon from Wednesday (6 Nov) to Saturday (9.11.) from 9am to noon for accredited filmmakers and guest.
A film festival is a place to tell stories. How food connects us all is a long and complex story. We shall make it short, in the spirit of a short film festival, by concentrating on a small part of this narrative, focussing on the east-west colonial and post-colonial influences.
Zaki Omar and Hanno Baethe are Berlin-based media artists, who have worked together under the name mata-mata since the early 90s. Zaki is a Malaysian, a former journalist, who moved to Berlin in 1990. Hanno spent most of his adult life in West Berlin until the fall of the Wall in 1989 and is a video art pioneer of the 70s and 80s. After Zaki's MA in Interactive Media in London in 1997, they began creating interactive time-based media. Their works have been screened and received prizes at international media festivals. Zaki and Hanno have both taught as professors in video/media design and production at German universities. In 2017, they ran a workshop with a group of 11 year olds to produce two stop motion music videos for the KUKI film festival. For the past few years, they have started to use food as a medium to tell stories about Malaysia’s cultural heritage and connecting this with other culinary journeys, using the supper club format.
Wednesday & Thursday
Friday & Saturday