From afrofuturist parallel worlds to decoding strategies of emancipatory sounds: Examinations of music striving for a life worth living.

  • Playlist by Tucker M. Wiedenkeller
    Dreamlike states, magical realism, and suspended reality. Enjoy a new mind-bending list of music videos from rural and urban Egypt ranging from light-hearted pop to grim electronic dance music.
  • Remix by Raphael Kariuki, Kamwangi Njue
    Nairobi-based artists Kamwangi Njue (7Headc0) and Raphael Kariuki (DJ Raph) remixed conversations between seven Nairobi musicians and Norient’s Thomas Burkhalter, resulting in this compilation album.
  • Quotation by Natalie Richardson

    «Paradise is a landscape on which we are constantly rewriting new cultural meanings atop the old.»

  • Q&A by Ksenija Stevanovic
    As part of the Q&A series of the 10th Norient Film Festival 2021, the director Serdar Kökçeoğlu and producer Dilek Aydın met with music producer Ksenija Stevanovic to talk about their film «Mimaroğlu: The Robinson of Manhattan Island» (Türkiye and USA 2020).