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Mon, 22.12.2008 - 15:40
Mon, 14.09.2009 - 15:34

Opening of the Conference

Emerging in a global blind spot the consequences of climate change have the potential to unleash a radical capacity for transformation breaking through history, blowing across boundaries, ripping through political sytsems and cultural roots. ...

Opening Lecture.
Perish in Beauty? Climate Change as Cultural Demand, Claus Leggewie
Thu 29.01. - 13:00

Opening of the Conference
The Making and the Thinking, with Paul Quassa and Martin Burckhardt,
chaired by Rob van Kranenburg
Thu 29.01. - 14:00 more...

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Mon, 22.12.2008 - 03:22
Mon, 26.01.2009 - 14:53

Planet A

Author: 
Momoko Seto
Country: 
fr
Year: 
2008
Format: 
film/video

Planet A shows a worrisome, strange yet playful world composed only of salt crystal formations. Salt and water recreate a surreal space and at the same time suggest the possibility that this phantasmagoria could one day be an irreversible reality. more...

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Mon, 22.12.2008 - 00:11
Thu, 08.10.2009 - 16:45

Dekoration

Author: 
Florian Gwinner
Country: 
de
Year: 
2007
Format: 
film/video

In Dekoration the camera spins around its own axis. Different arrangements merge. A representation of a mini evolution of the world. more...

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Sun, 21.12.2008 - 23:36
Thu, 08.10.2009 - 16:44

Host

Author: 
Trish Adams
Country: 
au
Year: 
2008
Format: 
film/video

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Sun, 21.12.2008 - 23:34
Sat, 24.01.2009 - 18:38

A necessary music

Author: 
Beatrice Gibson
Country: 
uk/us
Year: 
2008
Format: 
film/video

The Science fiction film A necessary music is about modernist social housing. Gibson explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape Roosevelt Island which is situated between Manhattan and Queens. The cinematic impressions are beeing attended by voices of the inhabitants and an insistent music inspired by the composer Robert Ashley. more...

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Sun, 21.12.2008 - 23:17
Thu, 08.10.2009 - 16:43

A Space Exodus

Author: 
Larissa Sansour
Country: 
dk
Year: 
2008
Format: 
film/video

A Space Exodus quirkily sets up an adapted stretch of Stanley Kubrick’s Space Odyssey in a Middle Eastern political context. The film follows the director herself onto a phantasmagoric journey through the universe, echoing Kubrick’s thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology. more...

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Sun, 21.12.2008 - 23:12
Thu, 08.10.2009 - 16:43

Hopeless Land

Author: 
Liu Wei
Country: 
cn
Year: 
2008
Format: 
film/video

Along with rapid economic development, the city of Beijing has been sprawling in all directions, dumping enormous amounts of garbage in its suburban areas. The central point in Liu Wei’s video is on the one hand the constantly growing piles of garbage and on the other hand the local residents, mostly farmers, who have to maintain their subsistence by re-using this urban waste. more...

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Sun, 21.12.2008 - 23:10
Thu, 08.10.2009 - 16:43

Optical Vacuum

Author: 
Dariusz Kowalski
Country: 
at/us
Year: 
2008
Format: 
film/video

In Optical Vacuum Dariusz Kowalski presents surveillance sequences from various public and semi-public locations on Internet sites that are not supposed to be accessible. The shown images of workplaces, conference rooms, winter landscapes, laundromats and gambling tables are accomanied by intimate, diary-like commentary by artist Stephen Mathewson. more...

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Sun, 21.12.2008 - 18:43
Thu, 08.10.2009 - 16:43

Kempinski

Author: 
Neil Beloufa
Country: 
ml/fr
Year: 
2007
Format: 
film/video

The documentary film Kempinski does not follow any script, the plot developes itself by specific “game rules”. The residents of a small African village in Mali speak in interviews about a new, fictional presence. They tell stories about a future magical world, which appear to be connected with African culture. more...

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Sun, 21.12.2008 - 18:42
Thu, 08.10.2009 - 16:29