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Filmladen + Gloria + BALi + Kassel Kunstverein + Culture station
multiple days
40. Kassel Dokfest – Documentary film- and video festival
14.-19.11.2023 (online until 26.11.)
places: Film shop Kassel, Gloria Kino, BALi Kinos, Kassel Art Association and KulturBahnhof
Program overview
Dokfest website
Dokfest Instagram
The Kassel documentary- and Videofest takes place annually on six days in the middle of November. The film program is at the heart of the festival, the short and long documentaries and artistic-experimental productions. The main concept also includes the cross-media festival sections Monitoring, an exhibition of current video- and media installations, the symposium interfiction, the DokfestConnection, the boy dokfest, the DokfestGeneration, which is dedicated to the older audience as well as that DokfestForum.
With 56 Lang- and 185 short films offers that 40. Kassel Dokfest in the Kassel arthouse cinema film shop, BALi cinemas and Gloria Kino provide a framework for lively exchanges with the filmmakers, who are invited to present their work.
since 33 For years, the media art exhibition Monitoring has been an integral part of the Kassel Dokfest. The exhibition for 40. Kassel Dokfest brings 19 Media installations together, trace the visual regimes, the power of images (and tones) reflect and examine their functional potential. The artists view images primarily as media for changing worldviews and as carriers and structuring elements of information. They examine gaze and representation, the psychological ones, social, cultural and technical conditions of the production and reception of images. The title of this year's exhibition Monitoring This Image Will Become Important Later is Thomas Mader's installation all heat and no light borrows and refers to this increased importance of images and their influence on opinions and perceptions. It is being looked at, how images become symbols and how they are interpreted, appropriated, be transformed and instrumentalized - whether circulating memes or archive images.