MARF MABO, born in 1987 in Passau. Works as both a photographer and graphic artist and is also trained as a carpenter. Film studies (Master) at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg. Films: The Wind That Eats People (2019), Jonny Bix Bongers – Sorge dich nicht (2017) and Für die Kat z (2016).
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KINO DER KUNST 2020
I am a Monument
DEU 2018, 16MM KODAK, DIGITAL HD, 14’30’’, ENGLISCH/ENGLISH
Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians believed that life on earth was an illusion and that reality began after death, under the earth, where the bodies of the dead remained. Deep in the sand, amidst the ever-changing sand dunes, the edges of the pyramids lie buried without any recognizable foundation. Digging seems futile. Or is it the underworld that is growing up through the surface?
