Whose Holiday?

What does it mean to travel? And what is it like to work where others have their holidays?

Always Blue, AT 2022, 06:00 min, no dialogue. Dir: Käthe Löffelmann
‘Always Blue’ was made as part of the exhibition ‘Holiday’. It engages with the visual elements of long-existing holiday structures. Dystopian or idyllic?

进岛方向 / Into the Island, CA 2024, 41:00 min, OV with English subs. Dir: Joshua Frank, CCA. Concept: Francesco Garutti and Irene Chin
In summer 2022 the architect Xu Tiantian and her office DnA are invited to design a new museum on Meizhou Island, which is directly off the coast from their hometown, Putian. The island, which is well known as the birthplace of the cult of the Chinese sea goddess Mazu, is a pilgrimage destination where space for worship and mass tourism, archaic construction techniques and strict measures to protect the environment co-exist in a fragile equilibrium.

Stories from the Sea, AT 2021, 86:00 min, German OV with subs. Dir: Jola Wieczorek
Jola Wieczorek’s film weaves together three stories from the Mediterranean in an impressive narrative shot in black-and-white. We accompany Jessica, a trainee on a cargo vessel and the only female member of the crew, Amparo, who has been taking long cruises since the death of her husband, and a group of young people on a sailing boat. A film between vacation and work and reflection, and the vastness of the open seas.