Congratulations to our lecturer Laurent van Lancker on his new film “Yurugu – Invisible Lines”, produced in collaboration with Petna Ndaliko Katondolo.

Rooted in the wisdom of ancestral ecology, the experimental essay film journeys through the fractured terrain left by the colonial dismemberment of inter-being relations – between cultures, between humans and non-humans, between the visible and the unseen. The Berlin Conference of 1885, a spectral wound in our shared memory, marks one of the sharpest incisions in this long dislocation. Yurugu – Invisible Lines evokes the gift of re-membering what was dismembered by the colonial project. Through dreamscapes, ritualised practices of sharing and ancestral rhythms, it renders visible the invisible lines that once held communities and ecosystems in sacred balance. Disorienting the colonial gaze, the film offers a multiplicity of textures and temporalities as a process of healing – inviting a recoding of aesthetics and storytelling rooted in cosmologies of care, reciprocity and continuity.

The conceptual „Fucking Different“ series – produced and curated by our lecturer Kristian Petersen – is about equalities, differences and clichés in the queer community. In more than 60 short films it breaks stereotypes, creates confusion and celebrates diversity.

In the 7th compilation film „Fucking Different Generations“, queer filmmakers of the boomer generation made a film about their ideas of the lives of young queer people, and young queer millenials reflected on their ideas about queer boomers in a short film. The result is a collection of seven short films that deal in a humorous, poetic, and reflective way with the similarities, differences, and possibilities for rapprochement between the generations in the queer community.