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urban research on film - directors lounge 2014
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urban research
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Even with a culture of news channels, soaps, talk shows, personal blogs, twitter and vimeo, we only hardly understand the complexities of average life, and the implications of every day history. This program between experimental and documentary shorts brings together films dealing with micro-history. It is not just the American sprawl that seems to be opaque to history-telling. The French provincial town already seems to be as alien, when seen from a political perspective. |
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Jonathan Rescigno FR
Destination Lune 25:00 2010 Going back to his home town, the film explores the artist's past in small town France. And it talks about the end of a certain world, the "Trente Glorieuses" (the 30 year post war boom) and the birth of another, the poorest region of France. |
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Jeymer Gamboa AR
Reencuentro 02:00 2013 Fragments of a filmic diary, moving from flowers in the garden to residential fasades. The sensory is in the air, mixed with pollution and radio waves. |
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Benallal Mehdi FR
Bois d'Arcy 24:00 2013 GP I spent my childhood, from 6 to 10 years old, in French suburban town of Bois d'Arcy. A time of unresolved xenophobia. My memories are slowly fading away. Who knows what the past holds? |
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Gabrielle Le Bayon FR
Tender Pastures 06:00 2013 A landscape is not only a geographical representation but also an inner state of mind. Combining an extract of Beckett's Molly with a character standing in a field, Tender Pastures reveals the mystery and the tension between the character and the landscape. |
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Anna Okrasko PL
Lot's Wife 05:13 2013 WP Conducted by a poetic voice-over, the film takes the audience on a fictive bike tour of female nude sculptures, located in public places in the former East Berlin. |
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Txema Novelo MX
Culpable 05:27 2012 Music Video for the song "Culpable" by Mueran Humanos. Public and private images mix in a sentimental journey of celebrations of muerte. |
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Erika Matsunami JN/DE
existence of risk—1964 04:30 2013 A filmic calendar sheet of 1964. By listing the year's events, and combining them with interviews of her relatives who lived in Hiroshima in 1964 and who still live there in 2013, Erika Matsunami questions the meanings of urban life. |
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Marina Chernikova NL
Urban Surfing / Moscow2 01:30 2012 GP The speed of urban life. Fragments of virtual spaces are intertwined with documentary fragments.. What is the experience of our environment immersed in new technology? The potentials of new media transform our perceptions. |
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Silvia Dal Dosso IT
The 1 Up Fever 13:19 2013 A sort of Super Mario Bros smartphone app is all the rage in Berlin. People are running wildly around the city to grab Bitcoins in an augmented reality game. As this virtual money is a valid currency, it threatens the social fabric of the city, and the government has to take drastic measures. |
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Program Overview
Directors Lounge 2014 daily program