Films by Martina Mahlknecht

2022, 60 min
by Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth

During the Covid 19 pandemic, numerous sailors from the Pacific island state of Kiribati were stranded in the port of Hamburg. In an unlikely collaboration, the German-Italian artist duo TÒ SU worked with them to develop the immersive film installation OVERSEAS. In a flooded stage space the audience is immersed in the seafarers’ stories of longing and separation, money and recognition, pride and community, environmental and climate risks. Using documentary-performative means, the artists make in

Germany 2022, 20 min
by Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth

In an experimental arrangement, the photo film accompanies two young Italian war photographers on an inner journey through their archives of wars and catastrophes. While shooting themselves they go in search of images that bear witness and ask for the human impulse of making and absorbing pictures of dead and disaster. The film - photographed during the Italian Corona lockdown - circles around what the philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls the 'void' that every testimony contains at its core.

Germany 2021, 30 min
by Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth

HACK ME BABY is a large formate film installation created by the german-italian artistic duo TÒ SU together with young experts from Hamburg. For a year now school classrooms have been a risk zone and for just as long students have been performing invisibility as a real life test. How do they experience the ambivalence of isolation in digital spaces in pandemic times? The team surrounding the artists/filmmakers Martina Mahlknecht and Martin Prinoth playfully explore how to undermine attention eco