Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? These were the theories that New York puzzled over last summer. Inspired by the heated debate over the two 'White American Flags' that appeared on the towers of New York's iconic Brooklyn Bridge, the film asks what kind of societal scope art has in the present day. What happens when threatened freedom reinstates art with the element of danger?
Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke and Matthias Wermke grew up in Berlin in the 1990s. A shared enthusiasm for repurposing urban spaces brought the three together early on. Nowadays, they still focus on the same questions and locations in their work. They create images and mindscapes, tell stories and dissect events – always in the hope of making the unseen visible and of exploring a place's fixed meaning and potential use.
