Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the trail of the HEROES in the illegal mines of the Ukraine, sniffs out GHOST among the sulfur workers in Indonesia, finds itself face to face with LIONS at a slaughterhouse in Nigeria, mingles with BROTHERS as they cut a huge oil tanker into pieces in Pakistan, and joins Chinese steel workers in hoping for a glorious FUTURE.
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment film during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Excerpts from Alexander Kluge's Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital (2008) and Früchte des Vertrauens (2009), commented by Fabian Saavedra-Lara (HMKV) – This is an event in German language only. For detailed information please refer to the German section of this page –
Most of us don’t know where their money is. However, one thing is for certain, it’s is not in the bank to which we entrusted it. The bank and our money is already a part of the cycle of the global money market.
The streets of Dortmund’s Unionviertel become the site of a participatory encounter as seven inhabitants of Dortmund with a special relationship to money, debt and guilt take participants to places which have played an important role in their personal history.
Our guest at this INDUSTRIAL Matinée is the musician and landscape architect Hellmut Neidhardt. He owns a comprehensive record collection to which we owe large parts of the music exhibits presented in INDUSTRIAL (Research). The Matinée offers an occasion to learn more about these exhibition pieces.
An abandoned building becomes the setting for a live adventure game. Imagine the office of an overworked trader in Dortmund’s Unionviertel. Market rates are ticking by on the wall. Suddenly, an alarm bell rings: prices are crashing! The spectators must step in: playing a point-and-click computer game, they can explore the office as a playground, picking up, testing, collecting, using and combining objects as the room reacts to the changes.
The only feature film by John Cage, One11 and 103 is based on the effects of light in an empty room. Directed by Henning Lohner, it was completed shortly before the composer’s death in 1992. Dir. Henning Lohner, Germany 1992, 94 min.
For the second time, DJ and author Martini is a guest in our Matinée program. Inspired by the topic of INDUSTRIAL (Research), he plays and discusses some his most interesting records from the genre of industrial music.
We set out to remodel Dortmund's skyline! Remember: In 2003 the coke plant "Kaiserstuhl" was dismanteled in Dortmund in order to be rebuild in China. If that is supposed to be industrial change, we can do it, too!
