Panorama 4: New Horizons
Thursday, October 15 2009 / 21:00
Film Theater 't Hoogt, Hall 2
Saturday, October 17 2009 / 17:00
Film Theater 't Hoogt, Hall 2
Who will emerge as the winners of the new world order? Neo-conservatives? Utopians? Globalists? Or will it be gangsta rappers? In this selection, new and old candidates present themselves in a struggle for ideals. But what are our ideals exactly and who defines them? Bear witness to a struggle in the arena of political and cultural codes. The verdict is yours.
They Shine
Rosa Barba (USA, 2008, 35mm, 4:00 min) (works)
In
her work, Rosa Barba focuses on idealistic sceneries from a recent
past. In this film she zooms in on a field of solar panels in the
Mojave ...
Dear Adviser
Vincent Meessen (Belgium, 2008, video, 8:00 min) (works)
Meessen’s
work is set in Chandigarh, the ideal of the modernist city planned by
Le Corbusier in the 1950s as a symbol of the new, progressive nation
of ...
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’
Witte van Hulzen & Sander Breure (Uganda, 2008, video, 13:00 min) (works)
For
this work Van Hulzen travelled through Uganda for three months
together with Sander Breure. You’ll
Never Walk Alone shows young men playing in surrealistic scenes that refer ...
Ottica Zero
Maja Borg (United Kingdom, 2007, video, 13:00 min) (works)
Soon
after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared.
With TV and film offers flooding in, she refused to accept the
competitive and superficial values of the ...
The New China
Sun Xun (China, 2008, video, 5:19 min) (works)
All
inspiration derived from a small book called New China given by a
friend of mine. This book was probably printed the Second World War.
It is ...
Speech Bubble
Adam Leech (Belgium, 2008, video, 5:00 min) (works)
Adam
Leech investigates connections between speech, vocal semantics and
the political economy behind the construction of social space and
public life. Speech
Bubble started as an investigation of a ...
Re:akt!
Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil, 2009, video, 10:15 min) (works)
In
May 2006 PCC, an anti-establishment Brazilian prison gang and
criminal organization, coordinated the largest wave of violence of
its kind against security forces and civilian targets that ...
Civilization (Megaplex)
Marco Brambilla (USA, 2008, video, 2:40 min) (works)
Civilization
depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through the modern
language of film using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic
video mural contains over 300 individual channels ...
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