Panorama 9: Nation Analysis
Friday, October 16 2009 / 19:00
Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Hall 1
Saturday, October 17 2009 / 23:00
Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Hall 1
Prosperity
and happiness have a price tag. Moral and physical boundaries are
stretched in order to achieve these ideals and keep them, and to
exclude others. This programme shows the national pursuit of
happiness. Not as a critical pamphlet, but rather as a thrilling page
from a boys’ book.
Y'a plus d'os
Jean-Charles Hue (France, 2008, video, 05:00 min) (works)
The
spiral of violence in this baroque sketch from the gypsy milieu
inevitably leads to the most confrontational final shot of this
festival. Jean-Charles Hue has gypsy blood ...
 Farewell East Germany (22 years later)
Elisabeth Smolarz (USA, 2007, video, 05:15 min) (works)
At
the age of 19 Peter S. became a soldier in the National People's Army
of East Germany. One of the most important skills which a soldier
would ...
Vostok '5
Jan Anderson (France, 2008, 35mm > video, 03:40 min) (works)
“Vostok’”
takes a humorous look at the USSR’s Vostok program, which was
designed to put the first human in space. Anderson recreates the
launches with a dilapidated station ...
Vostok '6
Jan Anderson (France, 2008, 35mm > video, 03:00 min) (works)
“Vostok’”
takes a humorous look at the USSR’s Vostok program, which was
designed to put the first human in space. Anderson recreates the
launches with a dilapidated station ...
Vostok '7
Jan Anderson (France, 2008, 35mm > video, 02:00 min) (works)
“Vostok’”
takes a humorous look at the USSR’s Vostok program, which was
designed to put the first human in space. Anderson recreates the
launches with a dilapidated station ...
O'er The Land
Deborah Stratman (USA, 2008, 16mm > video, 51:40 min) (works)
With
the excuse of freedom, we lose so many things. Silvio Barile. A
meditation on the milieu of elevated threat addressing national
identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, patriotism ...
Silverleaf
Adam Leech (Belgium, 2007, video, 06:00 min) (works)
“Adam
Leech produces videos with a narrative touch. The protagonists of
these stories are usually archetypical inhabitants of ‘the American
suburbia’ we are familiar with from countless television ...
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