welcome to arts and culture we're starting off the show with a look at ante bellum the new revenge horror movie about racism and slavery in the united states by debut directors bush and rats it's the 1st lead role for singer actress jenelle monet she plays a 21st century woman whose biggest concerns are her yoga regime and her vegan diet but then something awful happens. from verging. on occasionally as a black woman who has it all we are the future. but there are people who want to take it away from her who are you were. kidnapped veronica wakes up in a version of a slave plantation of old and belum america's racist past is still very much with us. there's so much distraction so much distraction that we have to keep reminding people. this happened if we if we think it can get worse we're kidding ourselves it

absolutely. so we have to tell the truth i think this film is going to be triggering from. the from the produces of global hit get out and she bellamy uses the central message that being black in america is like living in a horror movie and she fell and had a socially distance drive in premiere in los angeles the movie itself is being released online. ok. whatever you do and i can't. just. came from the for here. that is not possible for me. in her 1st leading role saying it turned actress jenelle monet hopes to have an impact beyond the box office real change requires recruiting. you know when bruton. road change.

is going to take media it's going to take films insignias you are reminded that we have to protect black lines and in particular we have to protect. your. antebellum being navy with grand social ambitions. of god did over use film expert scott roxboro with me now scuds are antebellum this looks like a seriously work horror movie yeah i can see call that i mean it's basically of b. horror movie but it's got a really strong political subtext i mean essentially the subtext is that americans original sin of slavery has not gone away but is buried underneath like a like a demon waiting to rain to spring up and wreck havoc right i know one of the producers on this movie is the same her produced jordan people's movie get out

a few years back different story one but a really kind of the same themes that works like yeah i think so i mean this is almost a new subject honor of black horror films with social messages which i think people really invented with with with get out and if you member that movie was a black guy who has a white girlfriend and he finds out that his girlfriend supposedly nice white family are secretly slating black people not so nice the the metaphor there is of course underlying racism of supposedly liberal all white people. feel that a similar thing with his 2nd movie which came out last year called us and they have a very middle class black family and then they're sort of invaded by a group of double gangsters who look just like them black people who want to take the life that they have here the metaphor is the class division between black people. with those films where they work these sort of black horror movies they're great because they're great horror. films and they also are really socially

relevant and they spark a debate i think particularly right now they reflect the debates that we're having in politics and even on the streets of america. let's talk a little bit about gentlemen now we've been watching her for years now she's a leading lady yeah exactly i mean nora singer right we're young a number of years ago as an actress she really came on the radar for me with the hidden figures a few years ago where she plays an engineer who starts to work for nasa as a key figure in the in the moon landings in the 1960 moon landings there i mean she just survives off the screen she's really phenomenal since then she's mainly done supporting roles i mean she had a small role in in the moonlight the last one you know she was great about yeah phenomenal and and she's going to be a new film of the glorious alongside alicia condor julianna moore but again this film is the 1st leading role i don't think i'm going to just movie i think she's probably the best thing in it but we wouldn't have not seen the end of her not the

end of her as the leading lady i mean she's a phenomenal actress a double threat actress singer i think she's going to be a huge huge future ahead of her i know you're going to be talking about her much more in the years to come thanks scar explorer. now architects shape the world we live in but construction is doing serious damage to our planet so how can we make attractive new buildings more sustainable one way plants a lot about it is the way just by german architect in. this stunning building complex in the western german city of will soon be home to shops and offices one being hedges and over 30000 plants a door on the outside here for you when you're trying to bring something green into the city or a quite radical approach onto the rooftops of facades and set an example. to make people stop and think. it's the stuff in

a woman is born and bred and just set off. by a has the longest green facade in europe the hedges have a total length of about 8 kilometers and so primarily ecological. to be experiencing very hot cities and they're getting even hotter more so for the surrounding areas that's because of the many heats reflecting rooftops of course a roof like this is an enormous help but it's because it not only covers the interior but also in a very cold to my way. home from is widely regarded as one of the world's most innovative architects designs can be found from europe to australia. enter into the marina one single pole some 350 species of tropical plants all integrated into this residential an office building.

those what it would be growing older if we didn't build it and how can we give you might say a clean piece of ground back to the people. that's known as replacement. we set up around. nursery to do it. release the piece of ground and groove the plans on its. it was almost a kind of business in itself. stuffing and hovan has often had to field criticism for example for the new subterranean central station and. construction of the mega project in southwest germany has been accompanied by mass demonstrations since it began in 2010 delays and cost overruns threaten to push completion of the planned date in 2025. back into set off that. joins the. built in 160 and the shell from 970 the theatre is seen as an icon of west german post-war architecture. has also taken on the renovation work to the theaters 50th

anniversary. of the building from my childhood. and i remember this theater very well be there with my parents and many other people. and it's always been a building i loved and i still love it today. it's an incredibly beautiful and challenging building. now aged 60. 5 to harmonize the city's architectural legacy with his been planning vision for the future the locals have already nicknamed the building in valley. the regime that ruled former east germany wanted to control citizens' lives and the country's image so one photographer allowed house 5 published photos of life as he experienced in east germany the dictatorship tried to intimidate them as workers attracting new attention at a retrospective in berlin. and melancholy labor day in east berlin.

raucous football hooligan. a child playing in the wreck of a vaudeville car. stone faced men in the metro on their way to work glimpses of everyday life behind the berlin wall seen through the lens of photographers. who moved from a small town adjourns then to east berlin in 1978 he captured the monday in reality of communism much to the disapproval of the whole forests the dreaded secret police the stasi kept a keen eye on him. that this was normal to be under supervision moving flocks of people active in the opposition were fearful we knew that he could sweep in on any of us at any time. it was a threat we lived with. houseboats was drawn to underground culture

a world of misfits and punks thanks to contacts in the west his photographs appeared in many of west germany's weekly magazines and in 1907 a collection of his pictures was published there in a volume called simply east berlin the authorities were furious shortly there after his daughter was picked up by the stasi the stalker stones of the. day they just appeared at her school took her away and placed her in a children's home and they trying to brand our family anti social the home knew the claims weren't true 6 months later i managed to get her back. an exhibition of his work currently on show at the c o gallery in berlin also features excerpts from his stasi file. he had some 40 informers keeping tabs on him but his aim was never necessarily to show east germany in a bad light bleak and gloomy as his images are that also steeped in tenderness his

perspective was always affectionate. to some extent he lost his subject matter when communism collapsed which isn't to say. people go on about community and so on but it was only ever an involuntary community. that photographer who is what documents. in all its poignancy. one full of life. that's it for this edition of arts and culture i'll leave you now though with a taste of music from a live stream a vent at the tate modern's turbine hall in london the group or as singers celebrating the 450th anniversary of a choral work by composer thomas tallis it's called alia and it's about hope something we can all use.

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