A panel of fictional characters and real women experts in fields such as defence, law, politics and psychology is set in a democratic ‘Peace Room’, mirroring the toxically masculine ‘War Room’ in Stanley Kubrick’s classic Cold War satire, ‘Dr. Strangelove.’ The women are tasked with deciding how to approach the prescripted situation. Bartana’s visionary work is the synthesis of an interdisciplinary four-year process that analyses the geopolitical power game – and presents us with an alternative to the macho power discourse.
Credits
Director
Yael Bartana
Production
Yael Bartana for My-i Productions, Naama Pyritz for Ingenue Productions Ltd.
Co-production
Zsuzsanna Kiràly for Flaneur Films
Involved TV Channel
RBB, ARTE
Contact
World Sales
Festival Handling
Richard Gabriel Gersch
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Available versions
47', DCP, color
Spoken languages
English
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