Filmabend: The Yes Men fix the world

In their 2009 feature film The Yes Men Fix the World (87 min.), the artist duo The Yes Men document their interventions at events, congresses, conferences, and press conferences. Using fake websites and wearing suits as disguises, they pose as representatives of large companies or important organizations and sell their colleagues and press representatives the most unbelievable news and business ideas, which they usually receive without astonishment.

The Yes Men show what goes on behind the scenes of the globalized corporate world and what hair-raising decisions could be and often are made. Their actions are incredibly funny, but the audience's laughter usually gets stuck in their throats when they have to see that others take everything quite seriously and are happy to participate. Thus, the Yes Men criticize without moralizing at the same time - that takes care of their plot and its results all by itself.

The film had a very successful run in cinemas and at film festivals such as the Berlinale 2010. The Edith Russ House for Media Art is showing The Yes Men Save the World in the wake of the exhibition Culture(s) of Copy, which ended on February 20, and thus once again a sensational approach in which a simple fake and the copying of identities exposes the structures of globalized society.