The Fabric of the Future
The time span of this compilation, accompanying this year’s interfiction topic *TOPIA, stretches from the Big Bang to utopian future scenarios: Three films which explore the limits of human inventiveness, telling tales of the great things science and fiction can achieve when exploratory urge, imagination and idealism come together – but also how the resulting world models and simulations, fascinating as they may be, tend to be constricted by the limits of human capability.
CERN MATERIAL TRIGGER 42
Scientists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) are researching the fundamental laws of the universe. They take data with the help of a particle accelerator that recreates the Big Bang. The amount of data is larger than any computing center can process. Thus only a fraction of data is selected for analysis. This process is called „trigger selection“. For this film, the same trigger selection process was applied, with the number 42. Out of more than 2400 clips recorded during an artist residency at CERN, only those ending in 42 were selected and assembled chronologically.
- Deutschland
- 00:24:42
- Director: Jan Peters
- Production: Jan Peters
- Photography: Jan Peters
- Editing: Marie-Catherine Theiler
- Sound: Jan Peters
- Languages: en,fr,de
- Subtitles: de,en
- Year: 2017
Deeply Immersed in the Content of a Learning Stone
The timeless objects of the Natural History Museum in Berlin, photographs of mystical wood landscapes and historical outsider art paintings form the visual cosmos of Gitte Villesen’s two-chapter video piece DEEPLY IMMERSED IN THE CONTENT OF A LEARNING STONE. The title stems from a novel by feminist science fiction writer Octavia Butler, and the associative narration also revolves around the themes of re-telling fictional future scenarios and the passing between different worlds and states of consciousness.
- Dänemark
- 00:28:24
- Director: Gitte Villesen
- Languages: en
- Subtitles:
- Year: 2016
- World Premiere
Urth
The last woman remaining on Earth, sealed inside an unforgiving environment, writes the final log instalments of her lonely existence. URTH forms a cinematic meditation on ambitious experiments, environments, and visions of the future. The film was shot inside Biosphere 2 in Arizona, a large-scale facility constructed to create an artificial, closed ecological system – an endeavour that was given up after two failed attempts. Since then, the facility has been used for a variety of scientific experiments. The film considers what an endeavour such as Biosphere 2 might mean today and in the near future, in terms of human kind’s relationship with the natural world.
- Großbritannien
- 00:20:00
- Director: Ben Rivers
- Languages: en
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2016
- German Premiere
