Der Film ist im Rahmen einer Diplomarbeit an der Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main entstanden. Untersucht wird die Informations- und Medienarbeit der Bundeswehr. Ausgehend vom “sicherheitspolitischen Paradigmenwechsel” am Ende des kalten Krieges werden Kontinuitäten und Wechsel in diesem Bereich betrachtet.

In 2006, a group of friends decided to make a film about filesharing that *we* would recognise. There have been a few documentaries by 'old media' crews who don't understand the net and see peer-to-peer organisation as a threat to their livelihoods. They have no reason to represent the filesharing movement positively, and no capacity to represent it lucidly.

Fire comes to us
from the sky and the sea

Here we are, 24 years later,
again besieged by the same enemy

History, however, does not repeat itself,
it perpetuates itself

The foreigners are leaving
(many among them are Lebanese
who enjoy a double nationality)

Who witnesses for the witness?
asked Paul Celan in another time

Disaster takes care of everything

I wanted to raise my left fist,
but in the meantime I lost my sense of humour

Oh cities that have never been invaded
Have you no nostalgia for the enemy?

Lecture Performance by LInda Lindheimer, Malte Scholz and Tobias Brenk, April 6th, 2006, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Lecture Performance by Vera Knolle, January 5th, 2006, in Frankfurt/Main. Part of the ongoing programme "Performing Lectures" by Unfriendly Takeover.

Letters from Beirut to the World

Subtitles in English and French

Sunday, July 23 2006
Everyone knows that World War II was a global war. However, knowledge of its development and impact on Western Europe is rather limited. At least in the last two centuries knowledge of war crimes has increased. The purpose of today’s lecture is to draw a rough outline of the neglected aspects of this war and to raise some interest in the exploits and suffering of the people who were affected by fascism, “Herrenmenschentum” and aggression, and fought against it.

Sunday, July 23 2006
Rio, Peking, Kairo, Istanbul, Genf, Kyoto, Habitat, Houairou, Konventionen, Protokolle, Deklarationen

Sunday, July 23 2006
What sort of language is war, if it is one? What would "total" conflict be? When does escalation become impossible? When the violence is not exercised to force others into a conversation, or to change the terms of a debate, but in order to end a debate, to remove the other party in a debate once and for all, when debate itself -- or politics, or language -- is itself the target of the violence .... is that the limit? Is that the moment when things actually can't get any worse?

Sunday, July 23 2006
Presentation of a works will reflect the dramatic transformation of the region, connected in particular with decay of the local totalitarian regimes during the 1990's. By representing various forms of ethnic, religious or political predestination and manipulation symbolizing the contrast social situation in his homeland.