fifty eighth time this year's venice biennale it is intended not to send messages but rather to raise questions. and british ceramicist edmund deval is also at the be an ally and brings his remarkable library of exile and his passion for porcelain to venice. but first we had to southern germany where the dock fest munich kicked off on wednesday and that's an international film festival devoted entirely to documentaries and one hundred fifty nine films for over fifty countries it's also one of the biggest of its kind in europe well a big theme this year is the tenuous relationship we have with our planet and so we've picked out a few highlights. while in the raven tells the story of a small town dealing with the promise of industrial boom and the need to protect the environment. people make a decision on where is that they have no spiritual connection to no aggression

whatsoever if you see a community. these rebels are. for us humans like to hear. tankers only pushed will be coming. what can you do. exposes the massive financial players who turn of fordable housing markets into trying to pull commodities the documentary focuses on the work of human rights lawyer. that must've been a time when somehow you know if you had to come to the city you had a job in the city you could live in a city not create wealth actually just taking wealth. if you're somebody like they had last. night for john fund the big advantages.

no regulation of deregulation. there's a loss of drawing out the because nobody was looking. now we are talking. and i thrilling. high seas adventure with conservationists go off to one of the world's most notorious poaching vessels chasing. under this is a bob barker you are fishing illegally. possible character. some harrowing images there and my colleague melissa holroyd has joined me in the studio welcome melissa you've come to talk to us about chasing thunder first of all that looks like a real cliffhanger but what exactly is going on there it's

a terribly exciting film it's a real eco thriller if we're allowed to call it that it's directed by mark benjamin and mark levin it's making its german debut at the munich documentary festival the crew are on the lookout for six poaching vessels and they come across the most notorious of the poaching vessels the fonda they have been illegally who have been illegally fishing for more than a decade the poachers of course cause untold damage in the oceans around the world the film ends in spectacular fashion and i think i'm allowed to say this because it's in the trailer and it's working out in us without filing with the captain sinking his own ship unbelievable stuff that we saw there not the sea shepherds are the ones doing the chasing and some say that they've got a bit of an infamous reputation they do well they have their origins in green pace and then they went their separate ways from greenpeace because they thought that greenpeace were a little bit too soft little bit too easy room that tactics so that really tells us

something about how what sort of group they are ok. and you were going to tell me about the communication i think on the oh yeah i mean one one of the ways the documentary builds tension is that it focuses on the communication between the two captains of the two sea shepherd vessels. and between the captain of the fun and us so many cuts in between those and that's also where a lot of the human lies in the documentary because this banish speaking captain is just so extraneous ahead of us maverick. it's more than a maverick you need to forget forget that you're actually watching a documentary film now let's let's have a quick look at you brought us the second example push because this problem of portable housing is a problem that we're definitely seeing everywhere yeah affordable housing is a global problem cities around the world are all having the same problem and push examines that it's ultimately a very depressing situation. is she stands as

a beacon of hope in this story she's a a straight talking and tireless figure for the past three years she's been the u.n. special repertoire on adequate housing medians yeah that's right yes she's it's directed by a ward winning swedish director frederick get and who's also done a lot of work on global matheson in justice he made but nona's and box this is cause they both went down very well get and follows it for over a year on the one hand the film exposes this desperate situation but on the other hand it's a really terrific call to action see if we can get just quickly to the third one which speaks to my heart because the whale in the raven was of course made in canada was yeah the film is set on canada's rough west coast it's an observational documentary you really get a sense of this observational documentary in terms of how the documentary ends up playing out it chronicles the profound relationship between the first nation peoples relationship between the environment and especially with whales and how

they cope then when the big investors come to town the whale and the raven of course that made by german director i believe yeah maybe i need to say this is his second feature length length film it's visually spectacular as in the picture is also behind the camera and the shots are just absolutely incredible unbelievably great visuals and very provocative stuff the doc fest nick on until may nineteenth was the holroyd thank you very much for bringing us those insights. well speaking of provocative on saturday the fifty eighth venice be a knowledge kicks off and this year organizers say the event will feature works that address a world in turmoil and that artists have been specifically encouraged to raise a lot of questions he was a prick of a few. the fifty eighth edition of the venice be an olive is called may you live in interesting times that's intended more as a message to visitors than as an all encompassing model for the spectacular art

festival featuring works from ninety nations much of it displayed in competing national prevail yes. one of the works on display is a machine presented by chinese artist soon young and pun new tries in vain to clean up a red liquid. artists live in the same world we did they read the days they respond to things but there are no themes in this business so yes i think art. is social but in a different way the. jurors a room or history or through apology. that approach is how we experience the world . the work that has attracted the most attention though is this ship wrecked it was transported to venice by sea the fishing vessel sank off the libyan coast in two thousand and fifteen with more than one thousand refugees on board few survived

being. swiss artist christophe blowhole has installed it for the duration of the be an olive in a prominent position in venice harbor. the job of artists is to raise questions about things and to raise questions about how we look at things about the categories we used to order our world. and then they that work is up to us to. develop a message. once again there's plenty of food for thought at the venice biennale. also making an appearance at this year's be analogous britain's edmund de vos world famous ceramicist and a bestselling author and it's perhaps only fitting that he'll have two exhibitions in venice one expanding on his exploration of literature and exile and the other

featuring his trademark porcelain vessels a material the virtues of which he simply can't extol enough as we learned on a visit to his studio. has shaped edmund evolves life it started when he made his first parts at the age of just five his fascination for the white earth continues to grow half a century later. who wouldn't adore. devolved worships porcelain as the perfect material not only because it's a deceptively pure substance solid yet translucent hard and fragile but also because it was a desirable commodity and traveled the globe connecting people you have to start looking for opportunities to rebuild empathy. you know and my job

my my job which is why i come to work you know to make things which are i hope beautiful and builds connections between things we've lost and things that we can build that's that's why that's why i get up in the morning. visitors to developers in london studio are invited to touch the train that the answers to has worked with for twenty five years. it's not just about the vessels but also about the spaces between and around. behind me i mean if you see see a group of. vessels or which of course are just empty spaces where they are. in a line that sounds to me it's like. so i'm making poetry. divans other great passion is reading and writing books. in the hand with amber

eyes he told the story of his jewish family his grandparents fled from the nazis to england now deval considers britain's push to leave the e.u. to be nationalistic and disgrace. put two thousand years you know we have depended from we've depended on people moving across borders writing in different languages bringing with them coaches which are. native to to do what we experience and then we enjoy reinvigorate things for the venice be unama here's created a monument to the world's exiles deval has placed his library of exiles in venice is form a jewish ghetto two thousand books written by exiles on display in a reading room coated in porcelain it pays tribute to those who culturally enriched their new homes including. and it's

intended also to be a place of reflection and exchange so you need to bring all the time with you know if you're heading to venice biennale it will run until november so we'll have lots more for that is in the coming weeks and months and of course on the website but that our time is coming to an end all the best for us here in berlin.

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