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Advent
/ The Advent
Reconstructed documentary taking place before Christmas on the outskirt of Prague. One night and the morning after in the derived lives of six characters search of their place in the world of the 21st century. Drug addiction, alcoholism, pornography and pop-music curing open wounds of own lives.
Director/author: Petr Hatle
Czech Republic 2010
Film & Video Video 18 min.
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An Urban Story
/ An Urban Story
I asked an artist friend who lives in a small city in the north of Italy to give me a guided tour of the city in his car. Invited to show me the places related to his personal experience and memory rather than those representative tourist sites considered to be of historical and cultural importance, he introduces the urban landscape through mixture of information, anecdotes and personal comments. Throughout the video, the narrator remains out of the frame, leaving exclusively the panoramic view from the car window to unfold in front of the camera. His ‘storytelling’ and the city’s ‘scrolling’ landscape weave the apparent anonymity of each to portray not so much a particular location or person as rather a broader problem of historical legacies, urbanisation and transformation processes, and the issues of alienation and displacement seen as emblematic to define the contemporary condition in our society.
Director/author: Iva Kontic
Italy 2010
Film & Video Video 16 min.
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Bettinas Job
/ Bettinas Job
Bettina is dissatisfied. Surrounded by poverty, disease and death, she tries to wrest something positive from her profession. A Carnival Day at the edge of a small town.
Director/author: Patrick Richter
Germany 2010
Film & Video Video 14 min.
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Lighthouse
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Lighthouse is about the labor system and the factory town in Southern China and how individualism is influenced by the social and political infrastructure. Guangdong District is the largest Metropolitan area in one of China's wealthiest provinces, and one of its cities, Guangzhou, attracts farmers from the countryside looking for factory work. The viewer is led to actively compose narratives through the poetic and the sublime images. It opens borders that separate cultural, linguistic and historical differences in the global labor systems.
China/USA 2009.
China (PRC) 2009
Film & Video Video 16 min.
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Portrait of Karl Marx As A Young God
/ Portrait of Karl Marx as a Young God
The images visualise specific reminiscences from recent German history, while the voiceover extends and counteracts these images with a multitude of interpretations. This ›fictitious miniature‹ is treated as documentation about events which never took place, but which just as well could have happened.
Director/author: Gernot Wieland
Germany 2010
Film & Video Video min.
