True Lies

The sober question of what happens to people when a camera is pointed at them has been posed for some time, and not just in various TV formats. Two domestic, short documentary films also explore the question of staging mechanisms and patterns of representation. DRAUF is based on a sociological study that was conducted with young addicts, who also have their say here indirectly. Musič complicates the subject of drugs, by negotiating the construction of a so-called "case history". Doing so is closest to reality in the fictional game.

Ella Raidel looks at popular cultural phenomena in the context of gangsta rap, hip-hop, poetry slam and traditional African music; specifically on the production process of music videos in Maputo, Mozambique. Behind the scenes - setting up the or during dance rehearsals, which Raidel includes as a matter of course - reveals a global vocabulary of gestures, which certainly reveals exchange relationships between American and African pop culture, a beguiling everyday life in the world of staged glamor. (Dietmar Schwärzler)

Program
DRAUF (Martin Musič, 2009, 43 min.)
Slam Video Maputo (Ella Raidel, 2009, 27 min.)