First screening of a documentary film by Ana Stanic with the Mobilistan team (Manaf Halbouni and Christian Manss), Counterpoints Arts and Allianz Kulturstiftung

The film traces the first official state tour of Mobilistan across European borders in the turbulent and uncertain Covid pandemic summer of 2021.

Mobilistan is the first ever mobile state limited to the space of a single vehicle. An art project dealing with the issues of mobility, territorial limits, marginalisation, freedom to travel and the desire to belong. The state is the limousine and the limousine is the state, whose territory can only be entered or exited through the doors of the vehicle.

This does not, however, preclude Mobilistan from having its own flag, anthem and passport.

Follow the state leaders on red carpets from Berlin to Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Zagreb, Sofia, Istanbul, Wroclaw, Krakow and Solingen.

Did it all go smoothly? Did the state ever run out of oil? Did it encounter any climate challenges and did any neighbouring state leaders offer help or support? All diplomatic blunders and successes, planned or improvised, hidden or displayed, are revealed in the film, alongside the onlookers’ thoughts and observations, and a few surprises.

Mobilistan performance and tour were realised in cooperation with Allianz Kulturstiftung.

The film has been commissioned by Counterpoints Arts as part of Across Borders initiative and realised in collaboration with Allianz Kulturstiftung.

Introductions, short film premiere and Q&A with:

Manaf Halbouni – artist and Mobilistan co-creator

Christian Manss – artist and Mobilistan co-creator

Ana Stanic – filmmaker

Allianz Foundation

Counterpoints Arts

Long live Mobilistan!