Roser Corella

Dates of residency: September till October 2019
Born: 1978
Nationality: Spanish
Lives and works:  Berlin, Germany
Education: 
2009 Photography, EICTV Cuba
2006 Photography, Städelschule, Frankfurt
2005 BA Visual Arts, University of Barcelona, Barcelona
Selected films:
2017 Grab and Run
2014 Prisoners of Kanun
2011 Machine Man

THE RESIDENCY
During their time at BAR, Kleager and Corella worked on research and documentation for their latest collaboration titled Intimate Outsiders. The synopsis of the film explores how women from the Global South are on the move as never before, filling jobs in the homes of wealthier countries. The materialism and rush in rich countries leaves working parents little time to look after their children or do the household chores. Women migrating from poor countries fulfill those roles. A thought-provoking gaze at exploitative female migration and the terrible dilemmas facing women who must choose between earning and caring for their own children. The film dives into the realities underlying the domestic work and care solutions used in Middle Eastern countries such as Lebanon. These solutions do not address continuing gender inequalities, and all too often rest on the exploitation and even dehumanization of the women who actually provide  care for children and do all the domestic work in the houses of middle and upper-class families. 

THE FILMMAKER
Florian Kleager works with a strong collective approach and regularly collaborates with other filmmakers and artists. Projects are mainly produced outside the conventional film and television funds and related to political and pop culture topics. Kleager is rooted in both documentary and experimental film, and was able to show his works at various film, music and art festivals around the world.