Future Legends
The present does not exist. In the moment experienced it has already passed away and become a future legend. Here we find past and future combined in a fascinating symbiosis: are they visions of the past, or are they in fact rather future interpretations of times gone by? In any case, it doesn't matter, since it is first through narrative that a document is transformed into a legend, a monument into an icon and images into stories. We witness how civilizations vanish, mysterious remains are explored, amazing inventions presented and new worlds discovered. A program between decay and utopia.
John's Desire
A flash of light, stars, the universe, galaxies.
A promising start that leads to a great adventure.
- Deutschland
- 04:34 Min.
- Director: Henning Frederik Malz
- Year: 2011
New Empire
A sci-fi documentary on modern-day Russia and the loss of the utopian dream and icons of the past, told through imagery from today's world but set in the unnamed past or future in a world parallel, but tragically similar, to ours.
- Großbritannien
- 23:41 Min.
- Director: Sasha Litvintseva
- Languages: russisch, englisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
When the Smog-Filled Wind Began to Howl
We know now that in the early years of the twenty-first century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man.(Adapted from Orson Welles’ adaptation of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds. Orson Welles And Mercury Theatre On The Air, Columbia Broadcasting System, 8:00 To 9:00 P.M., Sunday, October 30, 1938, commissioned by LIFT for their 30th anniversary)
- Kanada, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 04:55 Min.
- Director: Christina Battle
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
Abode of Vacancy
The work focuses on how we perceive our recently built legacy: the environments of nature and the modernist city are here both devoid of human activity or presence. Throughout the whole piece traces of nature and the city are juxtaposed, creating a tension, a drama and a dialog produced in their difference.
My Name is Karl-Heinz-Stockhausen
“This is the atomic age; the material itself must be part of the creative act. One no longer forms a given material, one must also create the material.” Loosely adapted from interviews Stockhausen gave in the late 60s and early 70s.
- Kanada, Belgien
- 06:13 Min.
- Director: Steve Reinke
- Languages: englisch
- Year: 2010
The Moon Goose Colony
Where are the moon geese which the English bishop, Francis Godwin, mentioned in his book "The Man in the Moone" in 1603? Does this very special species still exist? Do they still remember their moon migration route or are they stranded here on Earth? THE MOON GOOSE COLONY is a poetic-scientific investigation, weaving together fact, imagination, storytelling and myth, past, present and future.
- Deutschland
- 20:51 Min.
- Director: Agnes Meyer-Brandis
- Languages: englisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2011
tungu.
What happened to the Tungu, the last undiscovered civilization, which communicated not with words but through dancing? A legend, scientific fact or in the end only an experiment?
- Deutschland
- 09:00 Min.
- Director: Marc Rühl
- Languages: deutsch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012