Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society : Grace Schwindt

10 Jan-28 Feb 2015

Overview

Site Gallery opens its 2015 exhibition programme with Grace Schwindt’s feature-length film, Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society. Schwindt has created an immersive film installation examining the radical left-wing politics of Germany in the 1960s-70s, taking an interview with an activist and taxi driver as the starting point. The driver’s words and memories of his activist student days form a dialogue that Schwindt weaves through a theatrical setting combining costumes, props and performers to question political ideologies and to ask if we can truly be free. The film examines the notion of freedom: how it was, and is understood; and who, if anyone, can really access it.