Context:Society – Perspectives on Nail Studios
As part of the event “Context:Society”, “hands on nails – we are open” presented a screening of the short films featured in the exhibition. The programme focused on the social dimensions of nails and nail studios. Following the screening, researcher and activist Ayşe Güleç moderated a discussion with two of the filmmakers. Visitors were warmly invited to join the conversation and contribute their own perspectives. Here you can find out more about the films shown in the screening.
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“Context:Society” was the first of three discursive events held as part of “hands on nails – we are open” at the Temporary Bauhaus-Archiv.
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Sorge 87
Thanh Nguyễn Phương
DE 2018
Animated film 10’
“Sorge 87” is a biographical documentary animation film about everyday working life in the textile industry of the former GDR. How are migration and the nail studios that are now a prominent feature of the urban landscape connected?
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Taste of Home
Âni Võ
DE 2022
Drama 29‘
The feature film “Taste of Home” sheds light on contemporary forms of inequality and power imbalance arising from social insecurity, financial dependency and unregulated economic conditions. What failures contribute to criminal structures within the nail industry? And to what extent do politics and society take responsibility?
Find out more about the film here.
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HÄNDE
Verena Brakonier, Jivan Frenster, Greta Granderath
DE 2021
Documentary 15’
The documentary film “HÄNDE” (Hands) asks whether a person’s class background and social position can be read from their hands: poverty or wealth, ways of working and living, access to money and culture …? The film invites viewers to question social conditions and inequality, examining hands within the context of class and classism (discrimination based on a person’s social origin and/or their social and economic position).
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See You Next Time
Crystal Kayiza
USA 2019
Documentary 7’
The atmospheric documentary film “See You Next Time” explores the encounters that take place across the manicure table. Crystal Kayiza describes the film as a glimpse into the intimate moments shared by a Chinese nail artist and her Black client in a nail salon in Brooklyn, New York. What brings them together, and what sets them apart?
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