Which current airline headline is being recreated here through staged photography? Staging? Manipulation? Authenticity? Media creators aged 17 to 25 from all over Germany explored "#aFakeWorld" at BilderBewegungBerlin 2017 from August 26 to September 2, 2017. In this collaborative seminar with the German Children's and Youth Film Center (KJF), they created their own fictions and fakes in workshops on experimental short film, digital photography, and black-and-white analog photography.
To explore opinions, manipulation, perspectives, and other questions surrounding the topic of fake news, BilderBewegungBerlin launched a "FakeLab" in 2017. The first photos and films on the subject of fake news and fiction were created in a total of four stages.
„"Warning!" – Fake news production
Mirror tricks to explore the question of appearance versus reality, image composition and perspective….
New picture in a well-known scandal?
Photojournalism and authenticity were topics of discussion during the artist talk with photographer Jonas Wresch, winner of the German Youth Photography Prize 2012. His approaches and experiences, including those from his studies in photojournalism and documentary photography in Hanover and as a photography scholarship recipient of the STERN editorial team, provided many insights into the theme "#a FakeWorld".„
The digital photography workshop group also drew inspiration from the c/o gallery and the exciting guided tour led by chief curator Felix Hofmann, here in the exhibition by Josef Koudelka, Invasion/Exiles/Wall.
Artificial worlds? The Experimental Short Film workshop group sought out exciting filming locations and received permission to film in a Möbel Hübner branch.
Black and white photography workshop: The adventure of a light table instead of a computer desktop
Digital photography workshop: Experimenting with prints, made possible by the A3+ photo printer provided by Canon.
And experiments every now and then, too.
This has resulted in many different perspectives on appearance and reality, manipulation and authenticity, and truth and fiction. They were presented to guests at the end of #bbb17 during a screening of the resulting episodic film. “FAKE-O-RAMA”…
…in the black and white photography exhibition…
ua with these photographic works (clicking on the image leads to the photo series with information about the photographer and title on Flickr)
… and in the multimedia exhibition of the Digital Photography workshop group:
e.g. with these works (clicking on the image leads to the photo series with information about the photographer and title on Flickr)
We are already looking forward to the next BilderBewegungBerlin: August 21st to 28th, 2018.
The BilderBewegungBerlin 2017 is a collaboration between the wannseeFORUM Berlin Foundation and the German Children's and Youth Film Center (KJF)
The seminar is funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family.
