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the theater festival explored ways out at the crisis. taking a humorous look at the general sense of disorientation. but 1st we go to gonna, where one painter is portraying the way many families have stuck together. dw reporter isaac galaxy 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 solid hours when i decided to get a lot of ideas and also during my, my res to it was a good nicholas. i to my center part of my family. so this all inspired me to, to really be waking on family oh teams. his latest works, patrice families who gather to spend quality time together during the various loc downs, helping each other deal with the impact of the pandemic cove. it 19 brought many restrictions, and many families lost love, ones, thousands of gin eons lost their jobs as well. and or doesn't want to remain people constantly the pain they suffered. but he does hope that his works will help them reflect on what they've been through.

oh, but oh, i was a all i to give the viewer freeze please. in the on mine to, to really to my wife's does what does what my mean? 4 goals because everybody has a family. so i want to view or to really feel free and relate to my wake. ah, to get this kind of attention and through my way, emmanuel or cyber tang is receiving art lessons from our nor he struggled with drugs and depression during the pandemic. and taking a painting as proving very therapeutic for him. oh, 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, and i'm fighting to, to, to stopping by. it is, is not easy in all imagine those talk people on the street merging those children on the street who are lonely, emotional south of a cra, we meet new vienna 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 job duties. but that moment 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 quarantine, 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 yes. 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 things live shows are irreplaceable. and who'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 of c, c, d, inside a screen, the color mix of red, blue and green. it becomes very distant after the events tremble and no true there shouldn't 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, non smoker than him home to him, i was can find alone where comes 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 without decisions and all though they only restrict you physically and it does have a mental impact in wyoming. so he captures the sense of detachment in his latest work. the piece questions, the authorities expansion of power in times of cov, it. it also explores the dynamics of control and breaking free from control. when are you above that night? we've always lived in a world of 1984 and says into the pandemic, only made it more obvious. but it's not just a virus. 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. it is by nature, a war happens, it doesn't. venton. 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 on the season. so i want to focus more on myself and reconnect with my feelings. all the coven experience as deepened my sense of detachment, or it's a unique part of myself, of our dual i so so how can i make it sharper value? that's what i'll have to do more to going to enjoy. to tell you what yours jen. mar. chung says that the pandemic broke him into pieces, but it's also wake up call to look into his in at world. is

there a way that we could prepare more effectively? the feature pandemic. 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. true 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, u, b. c. 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 pathogens. 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 germs idle u. v. c lamps are used and a wide spread way to control air borne pathogens and indoors faces. um, 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 ours 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 venues that can act as, as f, as enters for super spreader events. nash . oh, a cat that hunches it's back and his is. that's mostly 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 since against women, which is worse and in the panoramic dw sophia,

on back reports i with my soccer match, he sta, or the mac massacre, is the name of this song by gotta angry, found a feminist rap connected 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 that we decided to meet up and talk about what was happening, reflection. and 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, only chemistry. i must suck. lemme cheese stir. also talks about the many women who've been murdered in chile and was having nobody said we'll discuss when it's during the pandemic. there were lots of cases of fem aside and women disappearing soon. it was shocking to realize that the danger was not only out on the straight about in our, in harvest, in the city guy we often experienced repression. that harm can be the only 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 into being during a workshop at a prison for young offenders. ah,

have nothing to cod. a get caught up with her. our collective doesn't just make music. although that's what we focused on most of late and with that we have several different gigs them in the educational side as well right courses and breathe. i'll wrap workshops then forming the form and the music project. all the songs and lyrics are developed during the workshop. this 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

next available, 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 sing, as i said, the end result with songs that will now be on our pay. nothing. take us. yes. it's a lack out our legal for the one with the legal with the women say they'll continue to rep on the streets, getting their message out loud and clear. now here in germany theaters and finally back up and running a drama festival in the city of whom has been exploring the sense of disorientation felt by many in the pandemic. taking

a light haunted approach. dw stephanie thorburn went along oh boy. mm. the characters in the plea after all springfield by belgian artist, meat to var look try their best to come together over and over again. but their inability and dysfunctionality create more and more chaos and havoc in their interaction with each other. they just can't seem to get together. ah, the belgian slapstick mix of body and object theater featured at this year's fi, dana puppet theater festival in germany.

these are these friction that sterile the time of day, which is also very funny 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 comp. and so our communication doesn't work in a co, monica 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 hunger. we do civically search for productions that deal with this fame of below dimensional bond, 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 book room performance

collective anika pock. the audience takes an active part in the piece. the 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. yeah, oh yeah, me come with me, going to come in and says if we go we'll all die. do that and come out there under the, the information that they gather during the play, the role cards and the conversations 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 firing battleship has every member of the audience has to decide? who do i train tower?

that's a very important decision making. question. do i trust this? 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

a my math is too much on all for now because artists have had 2 years of producing things good. a bit scary. i like with that. maybe it's also an opportunity to think because something is changing the wellness off. people have been producing things without the pressure of an upcoming premier or the need to achieve or result from quimby. i'm so you're getting partial results being shown because there's a feeling of transformation underway. i'm poor. what hasn't changed is that the art is continue to hold up a mirror to their audience. in finally, giblin is areese and 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 man and filmmaker, augustine, mandela hudson,

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 very much a dog suddenly we couldn't work anymore and found ourselves locked up together in the apartment, i was in several of whom dos. luckily, we brought a camera. he bought a sort of valuable jona. i'm a camera man legal model. so he'd brought a camera to have it in case something happened that was worth filming, that even though they said, but i thought i thought everything typically, 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 script and putting fiction into it. then bethesda, and once we started filming nat, geo, and making a felon wish, jacqueline, the quarantine completely changed for us because we were busy all the time,

was roughly $2.00 in pickle, both on because a, we started trying things out with the camera in the intending to make a short film radical, we focused on some of the issues that had dominated our life together. get the fact that constance came to my apartment, ski, or yeah, the fact that we weren't such consolidated couple, lisa again. so the pandemic became all about filming inside the apartment and going sonya lab anemia for us. that was the pandemic. he'll moderate that i live out of the and it's of whatever i mean. oh, yeah. but i was on the end, result was a full length committee with a title claim and tina it premiered at this year's born as our as international independent film festival event was staged with all the splendor of pre pandemic times. so you know, bruce horn with other home daughter of in the dog. the metering didn't know to book it in 2020. we couldn't hold the festival and a pretty good have to we're in 2021. 0, 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 open to sally. we had screenings outdoors in, in cultural centers with you. i know. finally, we're back to a face to face as to one, almost the same as before. my, i don't mean this in 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 limited, the lemon tina argentina's world premiere concerns of head men in august in mental house to the jury highlighted the movie, simplicity, freshness, and subtle humor, in portraying everyday life. the 1500. i mean that there's been such an atmosphere of joy and happiness, the festival you're a real party is enough either on then the way really happy. and so excited clementine has 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 here we are. we can't quite believe it. full movie

fans, the festival was a real highlight of to 2 years of mainly online screenings and in see movies have to be at the movie theater. no, not at home or online online or you know, well, the return to the cinema is a bit timid because of fear of the virus on the infant that mother read. well, i love it. i love the 2 filmmakers. the also delighted to have a film premier at the cinema elite that a know at 1st we will planning a series of short films as soon as they did. and when we prem, yet our 1st installment, it felt really empty. here we were just to learn them in what janice targeting and what she had. i'm a little strangely, elian wound up on that he down to the oregon, but it is a 3. and 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 about so it was

a low and the truth is you have which appearance the ugliness of the other until once again, appreciate how nice it is to be in a movie theatre up at a theatre locust. and it is of the couple se, if the audience that makes the film complete, they're convinced of that. now, more than ever, we're replaceable species and a social 12 people in many parts of the world are enjoying being able to meet up again, socially that. so for this week, next time we'll have more on the latest corona virus research. with

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