urban research on film - directors lounge 2008
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urban research
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Psychogeography as term has become popular with the Renaissance of the ideas of Situationism International. It is not an academic subject matter, but a way to directly interact with the urban environment and to research the subjective and political entanglement of places and cities. The program presents a wide range of such artistic responses to psychological impacts and urban geography. |
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Elise Florenty Thomas Fuerhapter Surveillance Camera Players Sari Carel Berit Hummel Steven Ball Ken Paul Rosenthal Elke Marhöfer |
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The Surveillance Camera Players both used and protested again CCTV recording with playacts specifically designed for surveillance cameras. |
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urban research
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Public housing has gained a renewed interest. With the recent developments in Europe, the demographic changes, new mobility and the neo-liberal changes of local governance, modernist public housing projects need to be revisited and reconsidered. |
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Andreas Warisz Zsolt Keserue Eleonore de Montesquiou Rita Bakacs |
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The films of Rita Bakasc and Zsolt Keserue look at prefabricated socialist panel buildings in Halle-Saale and Budapest, how the modernist industrial architecture became a home, and which radical changes those neighbourhoods undergo. |
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