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Handmade in Bangladesh: Film Screening - Madison

August 17, 2025 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Arts + Literature Lab • • Madison
Sunday, August 17, 2025 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location

Arts + Literature Lab
111 South Livingston St #100
53703 Madison , WI

In conjunction with the artists' reception celebrating Liz Bachhuber and Jill Sebastian's exhibition, Eat My Words, there will be a special screening of the documentary film Handmade in Bangladesh hosted at the Arts + Literature Lab in Madison. Produced and directed by Liz Bachhuber and Florian Wehking, the film takes the audience on a journey to the very heart and soul of this East Asian country - the hard-working people of Bangladesh.

In short episodes the film tells the stories of average working people who live in a rich cultural heritage of artisan handicraft and creativity. They invent many ways of recycling in order to make a living out of basically nothing, looking at it from the perspective of the affluent West, in the sense that “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” In this way Handmade in Bangladesh offers an alternative point of view to the often one-sided, negative media image of this young, independent country.

Bachhuber will be in attendance to introduce the film and to answer questions. The film screening will be held at the Arts + Literature Lab in Madison on Sunday, August 17 from 5:30-7:30pm. Registration encouraged. Free and open to the public. Register below.

Running Time: 76 minutes Languages: Bangla & English Production:  Germany / Bangladesh – 2019

Madison Screening:

Sunday, August 17: 5:30-7:30pm

Arts + Literature Lab

111 S Livingston St #100, Madison, WI 53703

Seating is first-come, first-seated, free and open to the public.

Register for this event!

Thank you to our partners for hosting and promoting this special program!

     

 

Contributors

Liz Bachhuber is a sculptor, installation artist, and Professor of Fine Art (Frei Kunst) at the Bauhaus University-Weimar. Her research interests and artistic practice focuses on the environment with a particular emphasis on the found object in art and the global implications of unbridled consumerism and the resulting garbage.

Florian Wehking was born in Westerstede (Lower Saxony, Germany) in 1982. From 2001 to 2003 he studied political science, philosophy and German philology at the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität in Oldenburg.

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