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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.

Fear Itself ... Yea Right , 7min, 2006

“According to the media and government officials we have much to fear, despite what FDR once proclaimed. With anxiety on the rise, running scared is all we have left, at least to warn others of the impending doom. This custom animation and action script allows me to frantically run through the streets typing out my fears for all to know in real time. If needed my character could stop running to converse with someone on the street, but when fear strikes, its off and running again"...more click on image