16 Oct 2016
Documenta 1955
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Battlefield Gender
Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artistic depiction of violence throughout history and the ways in which that depiction has been gendered.
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Tom Vogt Self - Narrator (voice)
Gabriele Werner Self - Art Historian
Birgit Dieker Self - Artist
Gorch Pieken Self - Historian / Museum Curator
Lauren Bastide Self - Journalist
Niklas Frank Self - Journalist
Loredana Nemes Self - Photographer
Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir Self - Artist
Beate Zschäpe Self - NSU Member (archive footage)
Hilde Benjamin Self - Politician (archive footage)
Kim Jong-un Self - Politician (archive footage)
Winston Churchill Self - Politician (archive footage)
Günter Kießling Self - (archive footage)
Manfred Wörner Self - Politician (archive footage)
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