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Decision of the Party (2008) is a film, which combines Super8 material from today?s Volgograd with parts of the sound track from the Soviet propaganda film The Promise (Kliatva, 1946). In this movie, Joseph Stalin plans and realises ?his? city, Stalingrad (now Volgograd). Thus, the real city of today is juxtaposed with its past medial vision, in turn becoming a projection of its own history within the film.

Romana Schmalisch 1974 born in Berlin, Germany lives and works in Berlin, Germany Education 1995 Universität der Künste, Berlin 2000 Hunter College, New York, USA 2001 Surikov-Institut, Moscow 2002 MFA, Universität der Künste, Berlin 2006/2007 Researcher Fine Art, Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht Grants 2009 International Residency, Berlin Senate`s Department of Science, Research and Culture in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery and Studio Voltaire, London | 2007 Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft Art Award, Berlin | Provinzial Förderprojekt 2005 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art IT | film grant from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin 2004 DAAD stipend, Paris 2003 project grant from the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Berlin for ?Dom Sovietov? 2002/2003 Kyoung-an Artist-in-Residency, Seoul