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urban research on film - directors lounge 2012
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urban research
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Rajesh Barnabas US From Up Above 29 min 28 sec 2010 From Up and Above is a documentary on FUA Krew. FUA Krew is an international graffiti crew with well over 20 years of history. |
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Helin Bereket TR Tourism of Tourism 56 min 06 sec 2010 The favelas (slums) in Rio de Janeiro and the favela tours which are organized for the tourists are the subjects of Tourism of Tourism. Rio de Janerio has become one of the centers of 'poverty tourism' which has spread around the world for the last few years. Tourism of Tourism is a 'monologue' about the daily life in favelas and the tours made there in a touristic, critical, questioning and emotional way, all from the perspective of one person, when favelas are shown as the heart of the drug dealing and poverty in most of the movies. |
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Böller und Brot DE SCANDALIZATION, Alarm am Hauptbahnhof 86 min 2011 "Stay Up" or "Lay Deeper?" - this question about the development of a new underground main station has changed the state of Baden-Württemberg from the ground. People of different classes, age groups and ideological affiliation took the streets for their protest. In their documentary Sigrun Köhler and Wiltrud Baier followed with the camera the controversy over the rail project Stuttgart 21 beginning with the violent escalations in Stuttgart Palace Garden 30th September 2010 until the parliamentary election in 2011. |
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Chus Dominguez ES Catalog of scenes for the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini 48 min 2011 Following the trip Pasolini made in 1959 along the entire coast of Italy as a reporter for the magazine Sucesso, they where located different places as possible scenarios for his death. Understanding cataloging as a tool that allows us to organize knowledge for recovery, this catalog offers the viewer the possibility of redemption of the rebellious individual or the questioning of our acceptance of the critical difference. |
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Adam Kossoff UK Moscow Diary 22 min 30 sec 2010 As part of Kossoff's Walter Benjamin Trilogy, Moscow Diary is based on Walter Benjamin's 'Moscow Diary'. Filmed on a mobile phone, I took the role of a latterday flâneur, following the routes that Benjamin describes, going to the locations, filming what is still there, or what has replaced what was once there. |
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Michal Lebski PL Dziurawa Skarpeta / A hole in the sock 36 min 54 sec 2011 The film is about homelessness in Poland. We have collected several short stories about our characters. One of them is about man who has no legs. We have found a new wheelchair and we gave this to him. We added a few interviews with psychology experts and music stars from Poland like Dzem. We show in this film that the homeless people have dreams, and they want to stop drinking alcohol. They try to live normally but they can't. One of our stories is about one character's death but it is only a short part. We have interviewed street workers, who work with homeless people in Warsaw, and some short hip hop music clips are part of the movie. The film was made by youths from an exclusion area in Elk. During the project, they spent their time in ruins where the homeless live. They have had lessons about camera and film and then made this film on their own. Michal Lebski is their coach. |
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Richard O'Sullivan UK Treasure Island: A Timescape 30 min 2011 Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. An abandoned military base awaiting redevelopment, the island is stranded between its industrial past and a post-industrial future. A purely visual 'documentary', the video itself is caught in a similar liminal state: by intercutting H.D. and standard-definition footage of the same locations, the film hovers between past and 'future' technologies. |
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Anna Okrasko NE Sobota / Zaterdag / Saturday 20 min 31 sec 2011 The video deals with Polish identity and self-confidence, and with its cultural representation in different decades. It combines music from Polish documentaries from 1950's with a new, fictional footage from Rotterdam today. "Sobota / Zaterdag/ Saturday" is an effect of my collaboration with Polish immigrants, who worked together in order to stage, for the camera the contemporary version of a daily routine built around a loose narrative. |
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Peter Bo Rappmund US Psychohydrography 62 min 2010 An analysis of the flow of water from mountain to aqueduct, city to sea. Shot at and around the Eastern Sierra Nevada, Owens Valley, Los Angeles Aqueduct, Los Angeles River and Pacific Ocean. |
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Anna Scime US sunvein' 8 min 31 sec 2010 "Sunvein" travels along Scajaquada Creek, a small, 13 mile long creek, popping in and out of the water from Frederick Law Olmsted's Forest Lawn Cemetery to the Black Rock Canal, as it paints an atmospheric portrait of the city of Buffalo New York's interaction with this stream body - surveying the land surrounding it, its liquid surfaces, and what lies underneath. It is at once an ode to urban wilderness and mediation on manufactured landscape. |
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Anna Scime US everybody lives downstream' 28 min 2010 "Everybody lives downstream" examines the history of the city of Buffalo, New York's complicated relationship with it's namesake river — the way we continue to alter this body of water through industrial exploitation as well as environmental remediation and restoration efforts. It surveys the natural and constructed landscapes and life within the floodplain and last 6 miles of the Buffalo River - where the river was deepened, straightened and sped up to enable industry. |
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Barbara Rosenthal US Toil of Three Cities / Liebesmüh 15 min 2011 World Premiere "Experimental performance-based documentary: Scouring NY, London and Berlin, an artist searches for the meaning behind the dedication of urban workers, and how by understanding their apparent joy in hard, physical, work-team labor, she might find clues to meaning in her own life." |
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Program Overview
Directors Lounge 2012 daily program