Films by Irina Linke

2022, 43 min
by Irina Linke

This film originated from a group of mathematicians, following informal conversations about their experiences during the Covid pandemic. We listen to the 87 women mathematicians from 36 countries speaking 25 languages as we travel around the globe by degrees longitude. The film gives an account of how the pandemic transformed their lives on a personal and professional level at the time of school closures during the pandemic. As the pandemic has a disproportionate impact on women, this film is a

Germany 2011, 13 min
by Irina Linke

A visit to a photographer's studio in Sanaa (Yemen). It is here that family photographs are taken, which are meant for the walls of the living room for friends and strangers to see. We are in the middle of this making, between painted décor, neoclassical sculptures and sceneries of green landscapes and faraway places. The people between the architectural elements, the draped plush toys and the charming flights of stairs with balustrade are not so different from those who had themselves immortali

Germany 2010, 24 min
by Dorothea Grießbach

“Identity is a topic everyone thinks about at some point during their lifetime. Who am I as a person and who am I in this society?” This is the question the student Isa asks during a photography work- shop with South African artists Hasan and Husain Essop. The twins were born in Cape Town in 1985 and have a natural affinity for the subject of ‘identity.’ They have made a name for themselves interna- tionally with their staged photographs about identity-related issues. In November 2009, the two a