Capitalism, Freely Associated
Three continents, three visual spheres, three contructs of ideas ? each films of this program takes specific economic phenomena, geopolitical structures or social processes as a starting point to delve into a flow of associations, to interweave arguments and images and to perform mental and visual stunts. With the means of poetry and sharp analysis, they build complex and fragile constructs which open up new perspectives on the trials and tribulations of a globalized world and its imagery.
Fire Work
The video connects Irish ghost estates, a Hollywood film shoot in Glasgow and two misplaced mosaics in Edinburgh, by using elements of a living room. The room is inhabited by an unreliable narrator who explores facts, fiction and his personal memories whilst telling the story.
- Großbritannien
- 00:22:14
- Director: Stina Wirfelt
- Production: xxxx
- Photography: xxxx
- Editing: xxxx
- Music: xxxx
- Sound: xxxx
- Languages: en
- Year: 2013
- German Premiere
Unsupported Transit
UNSUPPORTED TRANSIT is set on a construction site in Shenzhen, the first of China’s Special Economic Zones, where a new stock exchange designed by Rem Koolhaas is now being built. Against this monumental background, a story is told that begins with Eadweard Muybridge’s early sequential photographs and a commissioned work he carried out for Leland Stanford before the famous horse pictures were produced. As the story moves on to a description of time-lapse photography and what Karl Marx described as the “abbreviated form of capital” – a form that makes capital appear to move of its own accord, unexpected correlations between economic paradigms and the evolution of image production become apparent and coincide in the film's own imagery.
- Niederlande
- 00:14:25
- Director: Zachary Formwalt
- Production: Zachary Formwalt
- Photography: Zachary Formwalt
- Editing: Zachary Formwalt
- Music: Zachary Formwalt
- Sound: Zachary Formwalt
- Languages: en
- Year: 2011
- Website
- A38-Production Grant
Lettres du Voyant
"To take back the gold that was stolen from us – this is the object of our actions." LETTRES DU VOYANT is a documentary fiction about spiritism and technology in contemporary Ghana, which attempts to uncover some truths about a mysterious practice called “Sakawa” – internet scams mixed with voodoo magic. Tracing back the scammers’ stories to the times of Ghanaian independence, the film proposes “Sakawa” as a form of anti-neocolonial resistance. The film takes the form of a voyage to the end of the world, in an underground space which leads the viewer to each of the film’s locations: a gold mine, an e-waste dumping ground, a voodoo ritual, a discotheque. A character tells us a story through reading a series of letters that he has written to the film’s author. Letters that speak about the colonial history of Ghana, of gold, of technology.
- Frankreich
- 00:40:00
- Director: Louis Henderson
- Production: Eric Prigent
- Photography: Louis Henderson
- Editing: Louis Henderson
- Music: Joseph Munday
- Sound: Joseph Munday
- Languages: en
- Year: 2013
- Golden Key
- German Premiere