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Een selectie uit het internationale Urban Research on Film festival.

Curator Klaus.W. Eisenlohr met ondersteuning van de Directors Lounge, Berlijn.

Urban space is under rapid change. The city has long played a predominant role in the work of artists, the city as image, as ideal, as Moloch, as source of joy and social destruction, and not least as icon of Modernity. The increased dynamic of urban development - either as Shrinking Cities or exploding Megacities - urges for new concepts and a rethinking of urban space. Urban Research presents artists and filmmakers who address the progress of urbanity and who are concerned with urban space and public space in their work.

Detroit Park, 8:00, 2005

Michigan Theatre was an elaborately decorated theater at the heart of a busy and vibrant downtown Detroit in the 1920s. The advent of television in the 1950s saw a significant drop in public performance attendance and it was finally closed in 1967. Sometime in the 1970s it was converted into a parking lot, where floors and ramps were installed with only the most necessary intrusion upon the old interior...more click on image