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Symbolic Threats
Symbolic Threats

Director(s): Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke, Matthias WermkeDE15 min.2015
57%(6 ratings)
Categoriesdocumentary
LanguagesEnglish (orig.)
Subtitles slovak
Black and white / colourcolor

On the night of 22 July 2014, Matthias Wermke and Mischa Leinkauf hoist two white American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. They take the original US flags down and fold them in the prescribed orderly fashion. Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? These were the theories that New York puzzled over last summer. How can one incident be interpreted in so many ways?

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Projection of Symbolic Threats at IFF ART FILM 2016
International Competition of Shorts
Film block: Competition of Shorts V
Film was already screened
Film block: Competition of Shorts V
Film was already screened
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