Venue:ZEKIWA Areal
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 16
06712 Zeitz
The International Summer Camp will take place from 29 May to 7 June 2026 as part of the ZEKIWA Zeitz Real-World Laboratory (RZZ) and is organised by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. 48 participants from the fields of art, architecture, design and related disciplines were selected from a public call for applications. Around 65% of them are coming to Zeitz from other European countries and around the world.
Under the title Irregular Circularities, the summer camp aims to bring together many different perspectives and positions through workshops, experimental learning platforms and lectures, for example from local players, international designers, students and experts from academia and the urban population.
The Cinema in Motion initiative will also be presenting a film evening as part of the summer camp.
The language is German and the moderation will be simultaneously translated into English.
The Kino in Bewegung film programme brings together artistic works that deal with forms of exploitation, the extraction of raw materials and their inscription in landscape, body and history.
From the historical imagery of mining to the hidden archives of radioactive earth and the global supply chains of coal and silicon, the films examine what lies beneath the surface - materially, politically and ecologically. The result is a multi-layered perspective on industrial transformation, post-socialist spaces and the ongoing interdependence of technology, the environment and global inequality.
Film selection
- Leuna
Emerson Culurgioni, Jonas Matauschek | Germany 2014 | 14 min.
- Exploitation, or how to break the surface
break through the surface
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Paula Ábalos, Emerson Culurgioni, Charlotte Eifler, Deborah Jeromin, Mikhail Tolmachev | Germany 2020 | 12 min.
- Sunshine Belt Machine
Su Yu Hsin | Germany / Taiwan 2026 | 15 min.
- El Cerrejón
Simón Jaramillo Vallejo | 9 min
- Sun underground
Mareike Bernien, Alex Gerbaulet | Germany 2022 | 38 min.
Some of the filmmakers will be present afterwards for a moderated film talk.
