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what makes a man a man artists from around the world have different answers an exhibition exploring masculinity from the stereotypical to the subversive coming up here on arts and culture. but 1st for anyone interested in animal sexuality the short film series green porno by actress isabella rossellini is a must also in the who is the daughter of angered bergman and a former muse to david lynch has for years been dressing up as all kinds of animals reenacting their unique reproductive practices now she's launching a theater show live streamed from her very own farm. resupplied. isabella rossellini is part actress part scientist for her short film series green porno she puts to use her master's degree in animal behavior creating

a very intimate look at reproduction from the perspective of the birds and the bees and even worms. both male and female. i need to mate with another red light into 69 position here on my knees green pornos are the basis for her 1st online performance combining those videos with a live stream of her and her chickens sheep and dogs at her farm outside new york the show which launches friday is called sex and consequences. earlier i got to talk to isabella rossellini i asked her about the show's name your show is called sex and consequences i think the sex part is pretty clear what are the consequences. well i bet the sex part is not very clear for you because i'm talking also about animals that mate ira my friend diets animal that have

a sexual reproduction. the consequences i'm going to give you a surprise answer about the consequences of sex if you mate generation after generation and a species is dead he's kind that's pieces will become come out or with patches think of dogs ancestor is the wolf but once to wolf was domesticated dogs at patches so have come so have goats so have cats so there are consequences that are unexpected if you just kind of more cooperative individuals mate and i bet you didn't know that you jeff thought of the consequences pregnant not not pregnant we talk about that too you've been in rehearsals for a while now with your dogs your chickens your sheep which of your animals is a talented the dog of course is training for the circus so she's the most of the

end where is she now there's one other dog here is not so beat yet the hardest one to sheep because he began well and the other day they just broke into my house i go outside to have them. act with me in my porch but somehow the door was ajar and they just charge into the house and this is my house where you are which i'm using it as a studio it's a barn that i converted into my house you know of your work about sexuality and the animal world do you think that there's anything that animals get rights when it comes to sex that shamans don't. well you know i don't know what i was thinking i was talking about it to another professor who she's doing name is diane and reese and she study dolphins and dolphins have very amorous day so when to gather they stroke each other they resist same sex sex so we were wondering if our

culture we imposed on sex. only due to the goal of reproduction because and then we say oh then something strange happens with intelligence and we get all this complication rajib things will become gay or you know i don't know you can you know i want to change sex but this is all happening in nature dolphins who are very telegenic they have a brain bigger than ours and they are considered a master most conative animal also they have a sexuality that is not just use for reproduction as it has been for us also it's used for bonding for understanding each other to create. alliances so sometimes i would call ciar and skewed perception of sex you're speaking about evolution a moment ago what do you think is you have learned the most out of this year and

what we have your evolved from us through your time at home and lock down and during this online show with their animals. well i think i'm very resilient you know i think receiving evolution in technology. in front of our eyes just even you and i doing this interview. i think we do coke 19 and the problem d.s. created has to speed up a process of finding different ways of being together and communicate and this has been my problem i mean well the theaters are closed in america and i think they're going to stay close for another year if not longer and how do you reconnect with your audience how do you keep that rating stories so i still get a lot of businessmen were you using zoom so i'm going to do a live show. and it's not perfectly technologically perfect but if you think about the origin of cinema it was a silent movie and it was a big audience it was black and white and still had an audience that it isn't

a technology that yes of course we want stylish beautiful things but it isn't the essence i think the essence is what you have to say and as a bell or also in a had lots more to say about sex evolution and why she isn't voting for donald trump you can read more of that interview at d.w. dot com slash culture now here's a question are men that manly even when they dream this photo of sleeping israeli soldiers is part of a new exhibition here in berlin that brings together 50 artists it's called masculinity is liberation through photography as a whole right went to check it out. masculinities name a man a man. according

to a line of potter the curator of masculinity use the gender is a formative it isn't an ascension this are not born to be a particular way but we learn to come to the particular way to and. explore how masculinity of the representation of masculinity has become a code it is actually constructed and performed very specifically through the meeting with film and photography from the sixty's and through to the present day a massive undertaking. to put the spotlight on and examine what is seen as normal it's also to tell an untold story the 1st chapter disrupting the archetype breaks down the hype him ask and finds it rife with contradictions like thomas tull jack's found and painted studio photographs of young taliban fighters. the young men of color full of got may come pawn it they're holding flowers or other things

or holding hands and if it weren't for the occasional a k 47 in the picture you might think you were looking at afghanistan's gay culture a mishmash of semiotics and not the images of hype a masculine military man you might expect that skill in it is used as plenty of humor to dissect it subjects like how fish is gay semiotics or try see moffat's have been sneaking shots of young men getting changed at bondi beach in australia. was outside kuma is very much present throughout the say they want men to come to the shows in a council floated the idea was to really kind of in a way is that the title says liberation. in a way there is a sense of fun tethering them and allowing them to can fulfill their own personal emancipation they didn't meet the new strain just to do it here to these very kind of reaching ways of what it means to be a man. the exhibition gives plenty of room to groups previously sidelined by the

main strain. by photographers sunil gupta. i think for me it's really. believe that there was the visual representation of the photography so should represent if we live you know. throughout my life i've never seen you know in egypt. that are about. what's happening to me. this is the story of a gay indian migrant who's worked beautifully documents many of recent history's most important periods of a struggle and liberation. from school energies a journey through the meanings of modern man ness. the whole ride back from that exhibition masculinities melissa what were the highlights for you yes some of the highlights for me what to do with family the subject of family one of them was called my mother's cupboards and my father's words they were by anna fox and one of

fox does is she took images of these cupboards filled with household items and she juxtaposed them with her father's violent rantings so we have the collection of the items in the collection of the violent words i was very nice another thing that i really liked as well was richard billing her and raise a laugh 30 years ago he turned the camera on his alcoholic father ray and he's violent mother liz and took these tragic comic or full or very rough images of his family but i think the criticism is not so much on raw . a or on his mother on the on the why the society there's a lot of tenderness there they're also going to be making a film out of it a feature film called liz and ray this exhibition has gotten some criticism what can you tell us about that well the criticism well the exhibition tries to cover

half the world's population and 60 he is a fool and photography so everybody is going to be happy some of the criticism surrounds the use of stereotypes and cliches that men are just put into categories based on their body tie all this 6 well o.t. and that there are no ordinary men to be seen when i think it is them is that the men are working in the images except these activists who are playing nazis well i guess that's worked or isn't acting it is but it's a fantastic exhibition 300 images absolutely definitely worth a look even if you don't go on 100 percent with the politics behind. behind all this all right thanks so much for checking out that exhibition of masculinity this for us maybe we'll get to one called feminine. now earlier this week mexico's president. lopez obrador give his wife what he called an almost impossible

mission trying to convince austria to return a feather head dress believed to have been worn by the aztec emperor montezuma the 2nd but now the museum housing the artifact says it's too fragile to be moved the pretty hispanic relic is made of hundreds of feathers as well as more than a 1000 small gold plates ethnological museum says that moving the more than 500 year old item even within the building would risk irreparable damage mexico has been calling for its return for decades. well that's it for this edition of a. arts and culture from me and the whole team here in berlin thanks for watching have a great weekend. from

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on the topic of north korea remains a touchy subject. the world has passed judgement the country is beyond repair our preconceived ideas about the democratic people's republic of north korea remain firmly in place the. in a radical orwellian regime paranoid schizophrenic a place of modern day gulags. a red dynasty long headed by a despotic film buff and now by his son whose courtly appearances topped with a singular haircut. and then there's the country's nuclear arsenal a threat that makes the self-proclaimed innocent nations of the world tremble with fear. when it comes to north korea why do we so often resort to cliches in light of the difficult and often tragic situation the country's people find themselves in hyperbole seems rather inappropriate.

we're often told that foreigners are not permitted into the country that those who do manage to visit are not permitted to see much of anything and that those who do manage to see something should remember it's probably think. 'd someone once insisted to us that there were no high rises in pyongyang. a disorienting claim given that one of us was living on the 24th floor of a building on quite a box street at the time. this film was shot over a period of 80. years by 3 people one of us is

a translator of korean. between us we made more than 40 trips to north korea. but the film does not show prison camps or rocket launch pads that's for bed and as are images of soldiers construction sites shopping malls gambling pictures of people who do not have enough to eat and pictures of people who are eating avoiding these images is harder than it might seem. entering north korea is still complicated but foreigners are permitted to travel and explore the country although they always have a local minder. visitors are not required to proclaim their loyalty to the state nor do they only see what the state permits them to see. and it's a myth that you'll never hear laughter in north korea. or

iran or at. least. not. as soon as we leave the city the roads are riddled with cracks and potholes. the bumpy journey is hard on. drivers and vehicles. that could explain why broken

down trucks and buses are a common sight. depending on the season the workers in the fields might be harvesting wheat rice or potatoes although much of the country is mountainous the rest is primarily devoted to farming. north korea hopes to become economically self-sufficient someday every square meter of available land is put to use even on the steep hillsides. but only barely 20 percent of the land is arable. either but. i'm sure that at the time. this factory was not

films in 1920 but in 2016 using a small camera while exploring the city of homs home. as so often in north korea appearances are deceiving. this is the country's largest fertilizer factory which kim il sung honored with more than 30 visits. it's recently been modernized in a bid to increase the productivity of the country's co-operative farms. that are not for us. co-operative farms like this one with its familiar oxcarts geese and ducks and the omnipresent red flags. another visit to a collective farm a year later. it's raining and everyone has gone to seek shelter. the productivity chart proudly displays the farm's yields for. we

take shelter in the living room of one of the farm workers she tells us about the bitter cold winters hot summers and the back breaking work in the rice fields her son is 14 small for his age she admits but the family has been through hard times. her son was born just as the great famine was ending. behind her one of the country's ubiquitous historical melodrama says playing on t.v. . then she launches into a vivid description of her visits to pyongyang. to send yahoo's interview in addition to the muslim name of the great need as i visited the museum of the revenue share in the amusement park near the neediest birthplace the revolutionary mount a cemetery the science and technology museum and the grounds people study house. i went everywhere i was.

anyone from the provinces who visits the capital comes here 1st the house where kim il sung was born the birthplace of the republic. and this is where it all started they say. the great leaders training as a revolutionary the resistance against the japanese the struggle against the evil landowners and collaborators. it's a story that's very familiar to people here. and as kim il sung was the son of an ordinary peasant he's also venerated as a role model. this is a place of pilgrimage year round in the winter the buildings and grounds are decked in sober white. during our visit and 2011 we 1st saw a local visitors wearing brightly colored winter coats imported from china.

by 2015 the classes of schoolchildren are wearing brand name sweat pants even though their sneakers don't quite yet make the grade. september brings the color of autumn and a pumpkin on the patched roof. in pyongyang everything is bigger more modern more beautiful we were told by the woman from the collective farm. the city has more of everything more light more shops more food more housing more work more education more culture who wouldn't want to live here. the capitol is more than the epicenter of the state it's an icon. our farmer would probably have been told that these exemplary buildings are home to exemplary citizens scientists soldiers civil servants. some of the

most eminent live on the glossy numerate or future scientists treat. for a farmer from a village without so much as a paved road this would be an impressive sight. and the people who live here seem to have plenty of time for leisure activities. our visitor from the collective farm couldn't help but be dazzled by these high rises the most famous of which looks like an atom when viewed from above. and by the new districts springing up around the city built with the labor of the country soldiers and workers.

but it would be very unlikely that our visitor would ever set foot in one of these apartments reserved for the most worthy citizens. it's perfectly neat and tidy for the residents have fled the camera there's a computer cell phone books and a sewing machine. the balcony offers a view across the city in the midst of a real estate boom there's an abundance of color quite the contrast to the gray that dominated here just 20 years ago. this real estate boom has given rise to a black market in pyongyang and other large cities. when the state awards a faithful follower with a new apartment they pass on the old one to the highest bidder for a choice location prices can easily top $100000.00 and only a fraction of that is tax that ends up in state coffers karl marx might have called this the primitive accumulation of capital. of visitors tour might end with

a trip to an amusement park or a water park one of kim jong un's priorities his building playgrounds for the people. the entrance fee equivalent of 2 euros isn't cheap by local standards but everyone mingles and enjoys themselves even the adults get into the swing of things. to lose our because i came with my group but i don't know where my coworkers are. now i'm looking for them. who are number one to zucker local place that. has good

mood out there you have to be there i work at a large coal mine an hour away from john booth i can't come often because of my work. i don't see let's do a little today we visited the great leaders muscly him so i stop by here and i like to come to pyongyang. lax time after having fun like this work comes more easily i . want what are you looking at go play the fool. we've never been abroad but now we have lots of waterparks even at home in our province north of pyongyang moves were you. know you. know carnival modifies we will become the best in the world without anyone's help just by our own hands down but we're just outside of. any more questions where the best come from. were. some of the rural visitors seem

a bit lost in the crowd home but since many people don't know how to swim no one really notices. but on state television nowadays people can even tune into swimming lessons. were. i. the sun is beginning to set a good time to visit the city's main amusement park beyond pyongyang's arch of triumph. like everywhere in north korea filming anything to do with the military is banned but hard to avoid because soldiers are everywhere. i some might call this nothing but bread and circuses but it's far more than that there's hardly a north korean who doesn't dream of living in pyongyang and every resident of pyongyang is terrified of being expelled from the city for some foolish mistake forcing them and their family to live in exile for

a few years or for the rest of their lives in a place where they'll have less of everything. with its lights and sights pyongyang. ayers loyalty. people flock to the parks and swimming pools to enjoy what is the most attractive city in the country. and even the world for the people who live here at least since their world ends at the north korean border.

we've never witnessed a birth in north korea but we've seen plenty of weddings or wedding preparations to be more precise like this professional photo shoot for the happy couple is posing in front of pyongyang most iconic locations. it's monsoon season which means 38 degrees celsius and a very humid. day susan has elicited the bride and groom 1st went to the statues of the great leaders. then we came to the flower park you see here near the water fountain so. soldiers usually like to pose in front of military monuments if you like the monument to the victorious fatherland liberation war. what the wedding video doesn't show are the many people who helped make this happy event possible.

to focus on the good up. in north korea most marriages are arranged through matchmakers it's their job to find the ideal marriage partner who will also be suitable to the families. although marrying for love is just starting to trend arranged. marriages are still the norm one result is that people usually marry within their own social class. for many decades the country's elite was dominated by the revolutionary comrades of kim il sung and their descendants. at the bottom of the social order were the families of people who had collaborated with japan and their descendants. in between were some 40 subclasses who were not permitted to marry outside their rank. the end of kim il sung's regime the famine under kim jong il and the partial disintegration of both state and party that followed not only shook the country but also its traditional

social hierarchy. this helped loosen the stringent marriage rules. today the most desirable professions for a husband are scientist diplomat the military and of course business professionals . for years women traffic police were highly sought after on the marriage market but they're seen less often now with the installation of traffic lights. young couples are expected to have children and their education will be put in the hands of the state at an early age. the country boasts a reported literacy rate of 100 percent a success that is attributed to the revolution. the most important school subjects

are math physics music and singing korean and the lives of the great leaders. from kindergarten on children are subjected to a rigorous selection process the best students spend their holidays taking part in sports at the young pioneer camps. there here are. my. son. 7 c when we arrive at the stadium a competition is underway each side is cheering on its team. the young charges aren't wearing the standard lapel pins bearing the images of the great leaders there on holiday and children under 16 aren't obliged to wear them rather a good idea rider

a period of time ride right through there are a time. then it's time for the tug of war there are all look the evil american soldier in the middle is tough he's already made it through several tournaments or a 6 i was. through. my ira. finding a good husband having a successful career these topics are far more interesting to most north koreans than the endless propaganda they are exposed to getting married is important and

it's also the focus of the sitcoms that are broadcast on a giant screen at a central railway station the local stand here to watch them in the middle of december even in a chilly minus 15 degree celsius 'd. who who who who are. there is also an ad for automaker p.r. which means peace and korean the company was founded by sun myung moon's unification. church but has been fully owned by the state since 2013. the. people. who want. the sitcoms betray a politically correct world the individual matters only as a part of the collective we're being a good worker is what counts. in

the winter everyone is responsible for a stretch of road no matter how much snow has fallen it has to be cleared. that's why scenes of people scraping snow and ice off their patch of road before heading off to the office are a common sight in the winter. for some unknown reason we had to wait for years before our guides allowed us to film in parks. more on bowling park is a popular place for sunday outings at something like north korea's central park.

we wondered why permission to film here took so long. people drawing park scenes hardly seem like a state secret. then there are also shooting ranges. dancers. and lots of picnics. on public holidays the state sometimes distributes meat and beer. i don't. think. most. of. 6 these pensioners free of family and professional obligations are enjoying a day out. i was.

there free style of dancing is not easily defined and has the air of a show moniker ritual. in 1956 filmmaker chris marker who was part of the 1st french delegation to visit the north after the korean war recorded almost identical scenes of workers dancing by a train factory. sit down and leave only stands to more and bang park anyone who wanted to learn how we can pay with full mcconnell makes all the families that we need to every sunday to down it's. a mother not.

offended thank you that's why do you stand out with us. as. the district next to the park is nicknamed little dubai at 1st sight it looks like a kind of commuter suburb but appearances are deceiving. all sorts of things are hidden behind these tinted windows electronics stores pharmacies banquet halls supermarkets and a huge. selection of bars and restaurants. this

television ad sings the praises of a luxury supermarket so heavily airconditioned the staff wear warm jackets it's well stocked with everything from swiss chocolate to olive oil french and italian wines and imported fruit. the elegant restaurants up stairs are popular with the don't jews the money masters as the newly affluent are called they serve up sushi cappuccino a $20.00 steak north korea is no longer an empty consumerist state quite the opposite for those who can afford it.

north korea's party newspapers don't publish restaurant reviews yet but given the number of restaurants barbecue joints and snack bars cropping up everywhere around the country that's probably not too far off. is the north korean obsession with food a remnant of the arduous march the famine that ravaged the country between 1942000 causing somewhere between. half a 1000000 and a 1000000 deaths. back then even the word restaurant was considered taboo. came into power he promised the north koreans they would never face such deprivation again. now food has become a sign of success an important part of the culture almost as much as in south korea .

we come across a 28000 press release from the official north korean news agency. it reads from the 2nd to the 4th of april the 23rd cooking festival took place at the pyongyang noodle house marking the day of the sun the birthday of president kim il sung. if there's anything north koreans excel at it's. each time military experts around the world scrutinise the missiles mounted on the vehicles imported in violation of u.n. sanctions. others analyze the slogan or the differences between parades over 3 generations of rulers. his son and his grandson. but there's one constant over the years the images of north koreans cheering on their leaders.

are what it takes weeks of practice to make these living mosaics. normally rehearsals is forbidden. north korea only likes to display finished products. painting. missile or reform. but it's a tempting scene. since 5 30 in the morning students have been out on every square in the city practicing for the upcoming parade. all of pyongyang its main roads pass through kim il sung square. it's obligatory to slow down when passing in front of the portraits of the great leaders so the temptation to reach for our cell phones and cameras is high.

we observe the portraits as they observe us. during our 1st visits here we were like many foreigners and treat by their omnipresence. but the more often we visited the less we noticed them. the same does not apply to north koreans cyclists are required to dismount from their bikes and look upon the statues of their leaders. cars must slow down. 6 passers by turn to gaze at the images.