Symbolic Threats

Synopsis

Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or art? Inspired by the heated debate over two "white American flags" that suddenly appeared on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, the film asks what kind of societal scope art has in the present day.

Director Biography

Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke and Matthias Wermke grew up in Berlin in the 1990s when they learnt to value and utilise the city’s possibilities. A shared enthusiasm for re-purposing urban spaces brought the three together early on. Nowadays, they still focus on the same questions and locations in their work, whether it be as ‘filmmaker‘, ‘curator‘, ‘cultural scientist’ or ‘fine artist‘. They create images and mindscapes, tell stories and dissect events – always in the hope of making the unseen visible and of exploring a place’s fixed meaning and potential use.