Author: Charity Ellis

Charity Ellis

  • 2019, Ameenah Sawan

    Ameenah Sawan The Syria Campaign 2019, Bard College Berlin Telling the narrative on Syria has not been easy. I constantly ask myself: “what do I want people to see today”?. Do I want them to see the hope in the children’s smiles? Or, do I want to show our anger and pain when we lost…

  • 2019, Idil Morsallioglu

    Idil Morsallioglu Fifty-eight 2019, Bard College Berlin The word “guest” implies that a person is invited and welcomed by the host. It also means that the person will only stay for a limited amount of time. What is a “guest-worker” (“Gastarbeiter”) – a “guest” that is supposed to work? No, it’s a euphemism to recover…

  • 2019, Aryana Arian

    Aryana Arian Silent Birds 2019, Bard College Berlin Birds use songs to attract and locate one another. Each song is specific, has its own tone, sequence and arrangement of notes. According to Darwin, when birds migrate and the environmental conditions are different, natural selection gradually chooses the fittest birds. Evolution therefore affects the bird’s population…

  • 2020, Lejla Zjakic

    Lejla Zjakic All You Evildoers 2020, Bard College Berlin This comic strip tells the story of the young Bosnian Serb partisan, Lepa Radić, who fell victim to the Nazis and was hanged in my hometown, Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in February 1943. Bosanska Krupa was at the time part of the Independent State of…

  • 2020, Ameenah Sawan&Sohaib Alzoubi

    Sohaib Alzoubi & Ameenah Sawan Words & Acts 2020, Bard College Berlin From victimhood to agency we are facing a long journey. But it needs to be taken. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians had to live through unimaginable circumstances in the last nine years. No matter how often Syria has been on news front pages,…

  • 2021, Ahmad Qais Sangarkhail

    Ahmad Qais Sangarkhail The Dream of a Foreign Land 2021, Bard College Berlin The Dream of a Foreign Land is the name of a documentary film produced in early 2017 in Berlin, Athens, Lesvos and Istanbul. The film reflects the stories, experiences and dreams of Afghan refugees in Turkey, Greece and Germany, but also the…

  • 2021 Leigh Ronen

    Leigh Ronen I Will Tell You All This Now 2021, Bard College Berlin Between 1939 and 1941, Joseph Rosenthal, a German Jew who had fled to New York, exchanged a series of letters with his sister Paula, and Paula’s daughter and son-in-law, Leoni and Albert Hirschfeld, who were trapped in Germany and desperately trying to…

  • 2021 Vala Schriefer

    Vala Schriefer The Atlas of the Stranger 2021, Bard College Berlin Here are pages from an atlas of a world formed by natural expression of movement, a world whose core is hospitality. In Achille Mbembe’s lecture “The Idea of a Borderless World” he explores a utopian model of the world which realizes the Kantian thought…

  • 2021 Adèle Martin

    Adèle Martin On dirait le Sud/ It looks like the South 2021, Bard College Berlin Historically the French region of les Alpes-Maritimes, at the border of Italy and France, has seen various currents of migration. Between September 1938 and May 1940, many Jewish Germans and Austrians fleeing Nazi Germany made their way into France from…

  • Vanessa D´Silva

    Vanessa D´Silva Pensando a través de la bolsa Think/ing through the sack 2023, Universidad de los Andes La insignificante bolsa como agente de historia del cuidado y las relaciones, pero, a la vez, como un objeto que ha sido invisibilizado y subestimado por artefactos heroicos más violentos. ¿Qué sería de nuestra historia si la bolsa…