Shifting Consensuses
About
The film stages Wolfgang Saus, a German Obertone singer. He represents European values by singing key words of the European anthem: Brüder (brothers) and Freude (Joy). Meanwhile an amplifier, standing nearby, emits sounds that grow into words and finally into comprehensible sentences. These sentences come in different European languages and stem from right-wing politicians throughout EU. They refer to the immigration situation in the EU and how to solve it in their opinion. The battle between these two value systems ends – musically speaking – in the defeat of the Obertone singer. In other words, the democratic Europe is silenced by right-wing slogans.
Specifications
Director Biography
Hans-Erich Viet was born in East-Friesland in 1953. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Sociology of Art in Berlin and Belfast, graduating as a political scientist. He is also a graduate of the German Film & Television Academy in Berlin (dffb) as well as of the Berlin Scriptwriting workshop.
His films include among others:
«Frankie, Jonny and the others» («Frankie, Jonny und die anderen», 1993),
«Die rote Hand von Ulster» (documentary, 1996/1997),
«Hostage Flight to Paradise» («Geiselfahrt ins Paradies», 1997), «Schlange auf dem Altar» (1998),
«Milk and Honey from Rotfront»(«Milch und Honig aus Rotfront», 2000), which was nominated for a German Film Award in 2001, «Traumfrau mit Verspaetung» (TV, 2001)
«Der letzte Jolly Boy» (2017/2018) DGB Award
Pedagogical value
DP is an institution for civic education in Belgium and well integrated in a network of similar institutions in the Great Region and Euregio. We provide civic education to youth in and outside school and also in adult education. We will use this film in training teachers and multipliers who have to deal with questions concerning Europe and extreme right-wing populism. We work with the anti-radicalization entity in East-Belgium (Wegweiser) who also can use the film for its own purposes. The IDP focuses on ‘arts and politics’, a subject which is rarely present in school programs.
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By understanding how emotions can be used to manipulate people, we seek to make students fit for the daily challenges on social media, who are based on this technique. Konsensverschiebungen was the first film produced in this new IDP task program. A documentary about a three-year Erasmus+ Youth project has just been finished. The documentary followed 21 youth that worked out in 9 months how dance, theater and music manipulate emotions and created a common piece of art that was showcased in a theater in Belgium in April 2022. The IDP develops new ways of dealing with the urgent questions of civic education by producing new formats for teaching and experiencing democratic culture. We are in contact with the European Academies and the Council of Europe, promoting the use of of the Reference Framework of Competence for Democratic Culture. You can find more information about IDP on our website, which unfortunately is still only German, the language that people speak in the German speaking Community of Belgium.
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