Film still from overexposed/underexposed by Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi, 2025 | © NS-Dokumentationszentrum München

overexposed/underexposed Installation

Video installation by Daniel Asadi Faezi and Mila Zhluktenko

May 8 to October 19, 2025

About the installation

In the video installation overexposed/underexposed Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi investigate eight locations in different parts of Munich that are imbued with the experience of terrorist violence. These are places where people were killed, injured, or traumatized. Some of the crimes have become well known far beyond the city limits, others still do not have a permanent place in the collective memory. In some cases, the crimes are still being investigated while people continue to struggle to have the victims properly remembered. Every act of terrorism has its own com-plex history, and yet they are all connected. A network of lines—some of them invisible—also links these events with the Nazi past.

overexposed/underexposed brings together all these events into a single space where visitors can pause to reflect. How can a city arrive at a collective confrontation with such terrorist attacks? How can the victims be remembered? The camera captures each of the eight locations in turn at the time the crime was committed. The result is a continuous narrative that follows the progression of a day, conjuring up past events. The installation takes the exhibition Munich and National Socialism as its starting point and adds a new aesthetic experience to it. At the same time the project should be understood as a memorial in film dedicated to the memory of the victims of the attacks.  

Infos

Duration
May 8 to October 19, 2025

Opening & Talk
22 May 2025, 7 p.m.

Venue
Munich Documentation Center, 1st Floor

Curator
Anke Hoffsten

Artists
Daniel Asadi Faezi and Mila Zhluktenko

The intervention is part of our anniversary program.

About the artists


Daniel Asadi Faezi

Daniel Asadi Faezi is a film director and producer. He studied documentary film at HFF Munich and at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. His films have been shown at many film festivals, including at the Berlinale, in Locarno, and at New Directors/New Films at MoMA and the Lincoln Center, New York. As co-director with Mila Zhluktenko he has made Aralkum, which won the prize for the best short film at Visions du Réel; Waking Up in Silence, which was awarded the special prize of the International Jury of Generation Kplus for the best short film at the Berlinale; and their most recent work, rückblickend betrachtet (In Retrospect), which premiered at the 75th Berlinale. The duo are currently working on their long film debut.  

Mila Zhluktenko

Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mila Zhluktenko studied documentary film at HFF Munich. Her films have been shown at several international festivals, including the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the San Sebastian Film Festival, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, and at Visions du Réel in Nyon. Opera Glasses won the Goldene Taube prize at DOK Leipzig. Together with Daniel Asadi Faezi she has co-directed Aralkum, which won the prize for the best short film at Visions du Réel; Waking Up in Silence, which was awarded the special prize of the Internationale Jury of Generation Kplus for the best short film at the Berlinale; and their most recent work, rückblickend betrachtet (In Retrospect), which premiered at the 75th Berlinale. Their short feature film Critical Condition was invited by the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes to participate in the competition.

© NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Foto: Connolly Weber Photography

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