Urban Research on Film

11 mei 2007 - 13 mei 2007

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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.

Katerina Sedá (Tsjechie)

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There is Nothing There, 14:00, 2003

Ponetovice. A village close to Brno in Czeque Republique. No post office, no school. One Saturday in May, everybody in town is doing what they usually do on Saturdays; except this time artist Katerina Sedá directed the inhabitants like a real life video game into a synchronism of the ordinary... more click on image