Films by Barbara Kowa

Germany 2010, 83 min
by Barbara Kowa

If art can be a universal language, why shouldn’t it be possible to use it with people of totally different social, religious, educational and cultural backgrounds? Two visual and performing artists from Berlin, we traveled to remote villages in Mali where people speak only Bambara. we used traditional techniques of smelting ore, music, dance and traditional songs from our different cultures. We experienced how easily authentic contact could develop. We started this project to turn our dream int