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ready the theater festival explodes ways out at the crisis. taking a humorous look at the general sense of disorientation. the 1st we go to gonna, one painter is portraying the way many families have stuck together. dw reporter isaac currency has the story from the capital. a cra, cornelius honor has been painting for the past 8 years. he started off with just random objects and people. but 2 years ago, something changed. he got married during the pandemic. since then, he's focused on themes related to families. it was his way of highlighting the effect of the pandemic on people drilled upon me dollars when i realized that upon dominic brought a lot of families together. so i need to work on a family works. so does when i decided to get

a lot of ideas and also doing my research too. it was a good nicholas. i to my center part of my family. so this law inspired me to, to really be waking on our family oh teams. his latest works, patrice families who gather to spend quality time together during the various lock downs, helping each other deal with the impact of the pandemic. covey 19 brought many restrictions. i many families lost love, ones, thousands of gin eons lost their jobs as well. and or doesn't want to remain people constantly of the pain they suffered, but he does hope that his works will help them reflect on what they've been through . oh,

but oh we do. but i would say i would like to do the viewer freeze please. in the, on my end to, to really to my wife's does what does what my mean 4 goals because everybody has a family. so i wonder view or to really feel free and really to my wake ah, a to get the discount of attention. and through my way, emmanuel or cyber tang is receiving art lessons from, nor he struggled with drugs and depression during the pandemic. and taking up painting is proving very therapeutic for him. what a spy by the family themes adopted by honor. he decided to paint his portrait of a girl who struggled with mental health during the walk down in the capital a crowd. she ended up taking her own life. her story is

a reflection of his own struggles. and i do drugs, and i'm, i'm fighting to, to, to stop it. but it is not easy in all imagine those talk people on the street margin to was children on the street who are lonely, emotional south of a cra, we meet newly in a bus. he lost a friend to cove it. he also lost his teaching job and for months couldn't see his family. it was a very difficult time, but honours artworks drew his attention to another aspect of the pandemic. one of the things i think we should you there is a need for us to thank of it for the fact that it brought relatives together because everybody's really wacky and everybody's went out doing the activities. but that moment that we had to be in there for 3 weeks. i think it's a moment that many people would appreciate in his did you cornelius are

norris helping a number of other painters? for him, art is a way to remind people of coven 19. and how it changed lives now to taiwan, where video artist jen mount chang, has had his life turned upside down by the pandemic. his late, his work still with the isolation and confinement that he experienced during coin seen a traumatic experience that has changed him. setting up an art exhibition in the midst of the largest local outbreak. 10 ma chung found at the 1st company in taiwan that specializes in the technical planning of art events. there are any 3 days left before the show and he stressed out. if anyone on the side gets cove, it, they will have to stop working with truth, very chaotic, which i think there was a very strong feeling of uncertainty. you can't foresee what's going to happen. parts of everything is just so unpredictable because you're constantly anxious and

thinking about planning the us. so you 10 is also an artist himself. he's been working in the industry for 20 years. he says the pandemic has changed the art scene and not with more and more exhibitions going virtual. but he still thinks live shows are irreplaceable. and he's on the whole point of an art exhibition is to come and see the at your work or object. the feeling is very direct, but when everything becomes a c, c, d, inside a screen, the color makes of red, blue and green fire. it becomes very distant after the events tremble and no troubleshooting sounds. and who has the time to watch all the online shows. sources and it's actually a time drain, go and constantly distract you. up with one of our friends on through the cove. it has traumatized him personally. he went through a 14 day quarantine when the pandemic 1st broke out in early 2020. it was just like

solitary confinement and he had a mental breakdown. after his release he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder gern danziger than him home to him. i was can find alone where constance forced to confront my inner self children and the things i hit in my heart, which we don't know is if it amplified the worst part of me. mathematicians and all though they only restrict you physically and it does have a mental impact in words on so he captures the sense of detachment in his latest work, the piece questions, the authorities, expansion of power in times of code it. it also explores the dynamics of control and breaking free from control. when are you above the night? we've always lived in a world of 1984 and says into the pandemic only made it more obvious of him. but it's not just a virus with that. it's biological warfare on yours, perhaps started from an accident where it was premeditated. we don't know. but it

has developed into a new mechanism of control. good. it is by nature. a war happens from phantom chen says the pandemic reminds him of the impermanence of life. he has re prioritized his goals, hoping to spend less time on exhibition planning and more time on art buildings and voicemail was in my, my only live ones a season. so i want to focus more on myself and reconnect with my feelings. i'll bow the coven experience as deep in my sensor detachments. or it's a unique part of myself, of our dual outsourcing. so how can i make it sharper value? her fall? that's what i'll have to do more to going to enjoy this as it were yours. jen. mar chung says that the pandemic broke him into pieces, but it's also wake up, cool to look into his in it. well, is there a way that we could prepare more effectively?

the feature pandemic flu. d. w science correspondent, derek williams. keeps you up to date on the latest research. this week, he answers the question, could ultra violet light technology could control future pandemic o o tro violet radiation in a specific part of the spectrum known as u. v. c has long been used. the disinfect places like laboratories or, or operating rooms in hospitals, and especially early in the pandemic. sales of commercial u. v. c. products. adapting the technology for use in the home like like boxes for disinfecting phones or, or keys. they went through the roof. the problem is that using germ aside all u, v c, and public spaces, to kill off pathogens floating around in the air that could also potentially pose a health threat because at

a lot of wavelengths you be see radiation doesn't just kill microbes. and it can also harm your skin and your eyes. so large scale use of any technology would have to find a kind of sweet spot employing only very specific wavelengths that are harmless, the human cells, but deadly to passages. a recent study carried out by researchers from the u. s. and the u. k. looked at that sweet spot and their results were quite encouraging from a ceiling in a large test room. they hung 5 lamps radiating light and what are called far u. v. c. wavelengths, which other studies have shown don't cause any damage to us. and then they started pumping an aerosol, ised microbes to mimic an infectious person. it's really hard to do these kinds of experiments by the way. and this was the 1st time that one like this had been

performed in a way that really came close to real life conditions. anyhow, the upshot is that when all of the lamps were on the system killed over 98 percent of the airborne microbes within just 5 minutes. that's a really remarkable finding. but of course, it's still a long way away from a world where germans seidel u. v. c lamps are used and a wide spread way to control air borne pathogens and endorse faces. there are plenty of issues left to be worked out, including proving that long term exposure to far u. v. c. really is as harmless to humans as it appears. but if the method does pan out, it has several major advantages. the biggest is that it would likely be effective

against not just stars covey too, but also against a wide range of other pathogens, like influenza viruses and tuberculosis and, and it would probably continue to kill all of those pathogens no matter how they mutate it. so it could help with the issue of, of drug resistance. um, the experts that i read are hopeful that the technology will become available sooner rather than later. especially for large indoor van use that can act as, as f as enters for super spreader events with dish. oh, i cut that hunches it's mark and his is not slightly the meaning of god. and we find in spanish, it's the name of a rat bond. in chile, it's raising the alarm and against women, which is worsened in the panoramic. dw sophia on bug reports

with my sack them at she sta, or the mattress massacre, is the name of this song by got her angry, found the feminist rab collective from chile. the song was born during the pandemic. a time when violence against women increased world wide, the 4 women who hailed from santiago, but i so didn't just perform music. they also gave out women's hygiene products during the pandemic. and all the same quote that we decided to meet up and talk about what was happening, family reflection, unless we talked about the aid packages that the government was handing out to cover basic needs, including food and hygiene articles. but no one talked about the need for menstrual hygiene products and the app on economist right. he

must hugley much. esther also talks about the many women who've been murdered in chile and president. nobody said a lot of customers during the pandemic. there were lots of cases of fem aside and of women disappearing. it was shocking to realize that the danger was not only out on the straight, but in our in harm's in it. he said you're in the guy, we often experience repression. that harm can be via pony, so that's why this song expresses so much pain. it will not as shown to them in them, and there are no daughter before women don't just produce music. they also give workshops the 1st song that they performed in the santiago free radio station, plaza, digney dud, came in to being during a workshop at a prison for young offenders. ah, have nothing to see. all he'll can. if he's young boy

a get got it up. as soon as with the law, our collective doesn't just make music. i thought it, although that's what we focused on most of late. and my thought was handled the moment that we have several different gigs them in the educational side as well right? courses and breathe. i'll wrap workshops for the thing then forming the form and the music project, the warranty. all the songs and lyrics are developed during the workshop is of course, is there a break dog at the the women are now looking to record their 1st album. it's an e p with 6 tracks all written in the last few years. and focusing on violence against women fem aside and abortion rights. the national level,

you included the idea just developed out of the social context in which we live. he said, we wanted to speak out. we've always felt drawn to music because we're all since the end result whose songs that will now be on our pay. nothing. take us eunice gets a lego and go from one with a legal i. oh yes. oh. the women say they'll continue to rep on the streets, getting their message out loud and clear. here in germany theatres, i'm finally back up and running a job. a festival in the city of jerusalem has been exploring the sense of disorientation felt by many in the pandemic. taking a light haunted approach, dw, stephanie tolben went along

oh, the characters in the plea after all springfield by belgian artist meat develop. try their best to come together, over and over again. but their inability and dis, functionality create more and more chaos and havoc in their interactions with each other. they just can't seem to get together. oh, the belgian slapstick mix of body and object theater feature to this year's fi, dana puppet theater festival in germany.

these are this friction that sterile the time machine, which is also very funny how much that reflects what life is like in our world, which one we all keep trying. we mean the same thing, but when not compatible manage comp. and so our communication doesn't work in a common got soon disruptions and communication and the growing divisions in our societies unleashed by the pandemic, where the dominating themes of the festival program. this year's motto was questioning the world the hungry. we do civically search for productions that deal with this theme of bewilderment behind and it is as t my that examine how we deal with the truth with fast how we relate to confusing my medicine that explore these issues on stage. this comes out very clearly in a german production called shell game. last and paranoia land is by the boy whom performance

collective anake epoch. the audience takes an active part in the piece. they play the role of space tourist who crash landed on an alien planet and have to reorient themselves from scratch using the contradictory information with which they're confronted. at the beginning, every one is given a rule card that sets out what attitude they are to take. oh yeah, they come with me and says, if we guy will all die, do that. and from out there, under the, the information that they gather during the play, the role cards and the conversation that they have with the performers leads them to decide for themselves what has happened here and who is behind all of that of the flag battleship has every member of the audience has to decide who do i try to reach a tower? that's a very important decision making. question. the who do i trust?

which theory about what's behind all of this? do i actually subscribe to excuse? it was anguish, and in the former backroom steelworks, which now serves as a venue productions explored the massive impact that the pandemic had on working conditions and performance options. the artists of punch ocoee tried out new models of collaboration. here at the festival. they produced a larger than life monster balloon that was then made ready for its 1st flight out . after more than 2 years of the pandemic, things are still far from normal for there was working in arts and culture when there are insane levels of instability right now. oh, it affects me too. as my math is too much on all for now, because artists have had true years of producing things. good is gary. i like with

that. maybe it's also an opportunity. listen because something is changing. the wellness off. people have been producing things without the pressure of an upcoming premier or the need to achieve a result from quimby until so you're getting hoshal results being shown. because again, there's a feeling of transformation underway. i'm poor. what hasn't changed is that the artist continue to hold up a mirror to their audience. now finally, to blend it's arlene, where a filmmaker acted you, have made a comedy about their life together as a young couple in quarantine. a lot can go wrong when 2 people a confined to a small space. actress konstanz, our faith. mon and filmmaker, augustine mandela hartzer, had just decided to move in together. when argentina went into lockdown,

that was march 2020. the restrictions and burners are, is lasted 6 months. being confined to such a small space was a challenge until the couple started filming their daily life together. that had been the remark it, doyle gave suddenly we couldn't work any more and found ourselves locked up together in the apartment. i wasn't at all a home dose. luckily, we brought a camera. he bought a sort of valuable jona. i'm a camera man league a model, so he'd brought a camera to have it in case something happened that was worth filming out, even though they said that i thought everybody barefoot at 1st it was very difficult for me. after a while we started filming documentary stuff, but then we made the decision to start testing a scraped and putting fiction into it. then beserra, and once we started filming nash young and making a felon wish, jacqueline the quarantine completely changed for us because we were busy all the time, was roughly $3.00 in pickle, both on because

a we started trying things out with the camera and intending to make a short film, heretical. we focused on some of the issues that dominated our life together. is the fact that constants are came to my apartment skate the fact that we weren't such consolidated couple. again. so the pandemic became about filming inside the apartment chunk on sonya lab, anemia for us. that was the pandemic feel modern, that i live alone is off whatever. mm. oh, oh yeah. what i am was almost the end result was a full length comedy with a title, clement tina. it premiered at this year's born as our as international independent film festival. the event was staged with all the splendor of pre pandemic times. so either bertha or without her home, daughter of in the dog domain didn't not have worth it in 2020. we couldn't hold the festival and a pretty good to we're in 2021. we did a simplified version where all the films are just once or twice or some in person and some in theaters that had just opened to stanley. we had screenings outdoors,

and cultural centers with you, i. now finally, we're back to a face to face as to one, almost the same as before. we, i don't mean this is where foreign guests will once again present interaction between the artists and the public was also back along with the master classes and the when it was clement, the lemon, tina argentina's world premier can stand the feldman in august in mendel house to the jury highlighted the movie, simplicity, freshness, and subtle humor, in portraying everyday life. with you, i learned that there's been such an atmosphere of joy and happiness, the festival. you're a real party is enough either on the way really happy and so excited clementine started off. it's a very small project. it was just going to be a harm made short film. but little by little, the project grew and ended up as a feature length film. and he, we are, we can't quite believe at full movie fans the festival was of real highlight after

2 years of mainly online screenings and see new movies have to be at the movie theater. no, not at home or online online. i, you know, well, the return to the cinema is a bit it because a fear, the virus on the and from that mother really, i love it. i love the to feel like his the also delighted to have a film premier at the cinema elite that a know at 1st little planning a series of short films as soon as they did. and when we prem, yet off of 1st installment, it felt really empty. it we were just to learn them in what janice, tasting and what she had. i'm a little screen lee, even up on that he down to the oregon. but out, if that ain't when i compare that with her mirror with the one the other day in the giant room and with a big screen, incredible sound and everything that happened later on. it's just amazing buffalo, if with a lower and the truth is you have to which appearance the ugliness of the other

until once again. appreciate how nice it is to be in a movie theater. it up at a jada, llewellyn locust than it is of the couple say it's the audience that makes the film complete. they're convinced of that. now, more than ever. we are a playful species and a social one to people in many parts of the world are enjoying being able to meet up again, socially that so this week, next time we'll have more on the latest corona virus research. with

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