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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.

Drum Symphony/Rumpu Zinfonia, 21min., 2005

The camera meanders through artificial architectural space: architecture models. However, all the models are representing built architecture in Helsinki. The camera speeds up, the low-resolution video quality and lighting create sensations of real space, of emotional space. Thus, the film reinterprets the imagination and conception of materialized architecture, or more so, the ways architectural space has been depicted before being realized.