Animated detail from What Would it Mean to Win?

What Would it Mean to Win?:

Posters for Risk, exhibition at Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, Switerland, August 2008.

Film: Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg, 2008.
Sound: Kate Carr
Animations: Zanny Begg
Camera work: Oliver Ressler
40 mins, PAL, German, English.

“What Would It Mean To Win?” is a film based on the most recent
counter-globalisation protests in Heiligendamm (June 2007). It is
structured around three central questions: Who are we? What is our
power? What would it mean to win? and combines documentary
footage shot during the blockades against the G8 summit in
Germany, interviews and animation sequences.

Recently the counter-globalisation movement has gone through a certain
malaise accentuated by the shifts in global politics in the post 9/11
context. “What Would It Mean To Win?”, as the title implies, addresses this
central question for the movement. During the Seattle demonstrations “we
are winning” was a popular graffiti slogan that captured the sense of
euphoria that came with the birth of a new movement. Since that time
however this slogan has been regarded in a much more speculative manner.
This film aims to move beyond the question of whether we are “winning”
or not by addressing what would it actually mean to win.

This film is copyleft - free to screen in a non-profit environment, to obtain a
copy please email me (southern hemisphere) or Oliver Ressler (northern hemisphere).

What Would it Mean to Win? film stills go here: (PDF file).