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urban research on film - directors lounge 2014
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urban research
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This juxtaposition of experimental shorts discusses futuristic aspects of urban life. "The future ain't what it used to be" as a much quoted Yogiism says. Rather than elaborating on science fiction tales, the pictures combine and merge the present, past and future in different surprising ways. Life in our times may come with more challenges than just a space oddity. |
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Joe Merrell US
Crisis Apparition 06:52 2013 A "crisis apparition" is a spirit of the dying or recently deceased. The video consists of sequences of interpolated photographs shot late nights and early mornings around Hollywood, California. |
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Lorenz Fidel Huchthausen DE
Alter Junge 04:28 2013 In 2313 the world is ruled by Real Estate investors and Karma is a scientific fact. To increase profit, investors use squatters who are able to transform the buildings' Karma in a positive way. |
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Pedro Miguel Santos PT
Zigurate 05:52 2013 A hypothetical travel into the future of the city of Oporto in 2054. It extrapolates tendencies of recent changes in the Portuguese society. |
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Monika Rechsteiner CH
Real Estate II 08:30 2013 With the development of private property ownership, real estate has become a major area of business. The pictures leave it open to the viewer if they see progress or decay in the depicted construction site. |
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Fabian Heitzhausen DE
Let's Play Modernism 04:26 2013 Let's play...'what about sharing the videogamers' experiences? Shot in a computer-generated modern architecture, the work examines what we could learn from the relationship between modernity and the digital. |
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Matthew Pell UK
Escence 01:31 2013 "Escence" makes use of manipulations and the abstractions of time, view, movement, size and sound on objects that emanate light in urban environments. |
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Scott Fitzpatrick CD
Places with Meaning 03:00 2012 On a recycled 16mm film, the artist generates a video loop using the controversial dingbats font Webdings of Microsoft Word, at the same time asking for the origins of the depicted "places". |
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Henry Gwiazda US
choice 09:16 2012 How do our choices define who we are? - A parable in a fictive urban setting. |
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Rhayne Vermette CA
Full of Fire 02:15 2013 VP Using 16mm film collage and optically printed footage, this film underlines consequences of exile and replacements of homecoming based on creating and losing some notion of home. |
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Joas Sebastian Nebe DE
Rush Hour 03:00 2013 RUSH HOUR turns jammed highways into conveyor belts, belt freeways into assembly lines and makes the city to factory that produces senseless motion. |
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LJ Frezza US
Golden Eye 06:04 2013 GP An abridged history of surveillance in 20th Century using every James Bond movies released before the War on Terror. Goldeneye was the name of a WW2 operation developed by Ian Fleming while he was a naval intelligence officer. |
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Elizabeth Ross MX
Insomnio 04:17 2013 Open eyes. The silent noise of the city, the neon lights and burning sun, the dark stories dwelling the streets, allies, bedrooms, bars. Hunger and memory. Control and resistance. These hands are our weapons. I can't sleep. |
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Christiane Thalmann UK
Conversation on the Underground 05:29 2005 Unterhaltung in der U-Bahn is based on a talk between the artist and a friend on the underground in Hamburg about being harassed and assaulted as a woman and self defence. |
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Noyman Gili IL
Sounds of Discontent 02:49 2012 This short video follows two years of intense social unrest in the streets of Tel-Aviv. It focuses on the changing modes and phases of demonstrations through their ambient sounds. |
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Sharon Horodi/ Cheb Kammerer DE
Simply a Love Song 05:00 2006 Recorded in Tel-Aviv during the peak of the war between Israel and Lebanon in August 2006, this video shows how a street-demonstration against the war heated up and how the passer-by started to lose temper. |
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Program Overview
Directors Lounge 2014 daily program