Essays by Sandra Schäfer
2019
Contested Frames. Short Histories of Afghan Films
Sandra Schäfer
Katalog Forum, 69. Berlinale, 2019.
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What We Left Unfinished. Q&A for Forum Berlinale 2019
Mariam Ghani & Sandra Schäfer
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2016
Facts are no more solid, coherent, round and real than pearls are
Sandra Schäfer.
Peg Rawes, Stephen Loo, Timothy Mathews (ed.), Poetic Biopolitics. Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts, I.B. Tauris, 2016.
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Filmar como práctica política social contestataria
Sandra Schäfer
Virginia Villaplana Ruiz (ed.), Soft Fiction: Políticas visuales de la emocionalidad, la memoria y el deseo. Un homenaje al cine de Chick Strand, 2016.
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2015
Making Film Militant
Sandra Schäfer
Urban Subjects (ed.), The Militant Image Reader, Edition Camera Austria, Graz, 2015.
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Producing Space
Corinne Diserens in Conversation with Sandra Schäfer.
Heike Ander (ed.), Başakşehir: An Urban Model, Verlag der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, 2015.
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Leuchtendes Korn, flimmernde Zeilen, Stapel von Papier.
Luminous Grain, Flickering Lines, and Piles of Paper.
Madeleine Bernstorff, Sandra Schäfer
Camera Austria, Graz, 132/2015.
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Durch Fabriken und Institutionen
Context is Half the Work – A Partial History of the Artist Placement Group
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, 12.9. – 8.11.2015
Sandra Schäfer
Camera Austria, Graz, 132/2015
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2014
"There is no answer to any of these things": Religious Street Politics in Tehran 1978ff.
Images: Hengameh Golestan
Text Selection: Sandra Schäfer
J.Becker, K. Klingan, S. Lanz, K. Wildner (ed.), Global Prayers. Contemporary Manifestations of the Religious in the City, Lars Müller Publishers, Zürich, 2014.
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Framing Roman Shanties – Dokumentar- und Spielfilme 1951-1973
Christian Hanussek, Raphaël Cuomo, Maria Iorio & Sandra Schäfer 2014
This is the German version of the conversation between Christian Hanussek, Raphaël Cuomo, Maria Iorio & Sandra Schäfer. Published in: Roma, Citta’ autoprodotta, Ricerca urbana e lingiaggi artistici, Manifesto Libri, Rom, 2014.
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2010
to act in history
Sandra Schäfer.
Hans-Joachim Lenger, Michaela Ott, Sarah Speck, Harald Strauß (ed.), Virtualität und Kontrolle, Textem, Hamburg, 2010.
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Das andere Afghanistan
Sandra Schäfer. Cargo, Berlin, 07/2010
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2009
The Making
Sandra Schäfer.
Sandra Schäfer, stagings. Kabul, Film & Production of Representation, metrZones/media 2, b_books, 2009
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Passing the Rainbow
Sandra Schäfer
Katya Sander (Hg.), Circulations, Printed Project, Issue 12, Belfast, 2009
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2006
The Ladies
Sandra Schäfer / Madeleine Bernstorff
First published in: Sandra Schäfer, Jochen Becker, Madeleine Bernstorff (Hg.): Kabul/ Teheran 1979ff, b_books, Berlin, 2006
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Every Change Engendered Its Own Specific Films
Interview with Siddiq Barmak and Engineer Latif Ahmadi
Sandra Schäfer
This interview is a revised version of a text that was first published in Kabul/Teheran 1979ff: Filmlandschaften, Städte unter Stress und Migration, Sandra Schäfer, Jochen Becker und Madeleine Bernstorff (ed.), b_books Berlin, 2006
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