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OF THE FUTURE visions of the scenarios to come What are the key thoughts of reflection about tomorrow? Atlas of the Future offers us likely visual trajectories that project our day into forthcoming scenarios and patterns. The exhibit is an annotation of moving images which address key themes in social development and in our world studied through video clips and documentaries, the latter hailing from the archives of Festival dei Popoli. From Mexico to India, from the United States to Nigeria, from Israel to China, from Italy to the Congo to Russia, the works tell stories and utopias, imagine worlds and offer speculations for life in the future. |
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| SPACES Immagination, floating territories |
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letti del fiume by Aldo Innocenzo, Italy, 2007-2008, 23’ Production and distribution: Stalker-Osservatorio Nomade Editing: Aldo Innocenzi The Stalkers’ Italian debut presents their latest workshop about urban issues, a probe into the living conditions at the Rom community settled on the banks of the Tiber. The project was made possible with the help from students from Francesco Careri’s “Civil Arts” course at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Roma Tre. Border by Hans Op de Beeck, Begium, 2002, 2’44” Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano The x-ray of a big truck shows a group of clandestine refugees hidden behind goods in transport. The drama of escape from one’s own country reduced into x-ray images by the Belgian artist. De_Lete by Jenny Marketou, USA, 2006, 9’30’’ Courtesy Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt During the Summer of 2001 Jenny Marketou spent a few days filming everything that goes on in Tijuana, a city on the border of Mexico and the United States. Artist reinterpretation of one of the hottest places on the Mexico-US border. De l’autre côté by Chantal Akerman, France, 2002, 99’ Production and distribution: Amip Immigration stories at the Mexico-United States border. Long-standing stories that keep repeating, becoming more and more hopeless with every passing day. |
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| TIME Lived time projected into the future |
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Jetée by Chris Marker, France, 1962, 29’ Production: Argos Films Distribution: Ripley’s Film A masterpiece in cinema history, made almost solely with fixed frames -- single images with hypnotic effects, full of meaning: past that becomes future and vice versa, up until the final, inexplicable short circuit. The World of Tomorrow by Tom Johnson and Lance Bird, USA, 1984, 83’ Production: Tom Johnson e Lance Bird Distribution: Direct Cinema Limited The future in 2000 imagined by Americans in 1939-40 at the Great World’s Fair of New York, told through old commercial clips, newsreels and cartoons. A dreamy atmosphere, full of wonder and extravagance. |
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| INVISIBLE Information, electronics |
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by Manu Luksch, Great Britain, 2002-2007, 50’ Production: Amour Fou e Ambient Information Systems Distribution: Sixpack Film Science-fiction fairytale portraying a society of people with no faces, stuck in a dimension of eternal present, with no past or future. Experimental work made entirely with video-surveillance recordings. The Catalogue by Chris Oakley, Great Britain, 2004, 5’30” Courtesy the artist An English video artist who visualizes a sort of cataloguing of the human race, based on a collection of data and information of consumer habits collected from video-surveillance recordings. The Great Indian School Show by Avinash Deshpande, India, 2005, 52’ Production: Poona Cinema Distribution: Avinash Deshpande Students at the Mahatma Gandhi School in Nagpur, India, are constantly being observed through a 185 video camera circuit. Reality of a society that is plummeting towards a nightmare of non-stop surveillance. |
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by Vicky Funari-Sergio De La Torre, |
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| CITY Visions and perspectives |
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04 by Olivo Barbieri, Italy, 2005, 12’30” |
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| ENVIRONMENT Environmental emergency, sustainability |
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| TIME Lived time projected into the future |
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for New Heritage Trilogy by David Maljkovic, Croatia, 2004-2007, 21’20’’ Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam Celebratory monuments of the past become the hinge of the Croatian artist’s reflection on our story’s meaning and on how this meaning can change for coming generations. The trilogy is a trip into the theoretical future, set in 2045. Supersuperficie/Vita. Un modello alternativo di vita sulla terra by Superstudio, Italy, 1972, 9’35” Production: Supercosmic Courtesy Archivio Superstudio The Fiorentine group of radical architects made this film as part of a series (uncompleted) which focused on the relationships between architecture as conscious formalization of the planet and events in human life. The Wild Blu Yonder (L’ignoto spazio profondo) by Werner Herzog, Germany-Great Britain-France, 2005, 81’ Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, West Park Pictures, Tetra Media Distribution: Fandango The visionary genius Herzog has created a scientific fantasy that talks about our planet, making use of unique materials (documentaries from NASA archives and films shot underwater in the South Pole). |
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| CITY City of the future |
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Urbanic by Ran Slavin, 2002, Israel, 9’ Courtesy the artist Israeli multimedia video artist Ran Slavin manipulates aerial shots of Tel Aviv on the computer, transforming the city into a universe of abstract signs: a micro-macro cosmos of interweaved urban landscapes. Gardens by the Bay by Squint/Opera, Great Britain, 2006, 6’ Production and distribution: Squint/Opera For the young architects and artists of the English collective the motion-picture tool constitutes the most effective means for presenting their architectural project. The animation film shows us the project ideas for a futuristic botanical garden in Singapore. The Building by Hans Op de Beeck, 2007, Belgium, 4’ 17” Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano The Belgian artist films the plastic of an enormous hospital complex, accentuating the impersonality and alienation of spaces where we spend crucial moments of our lives: birth, illness, death. RMB City. A Second Life City Planning, by Cao Fei/China Tracy, China, 2007, 5.57” Courtesy Vitamin Creative Space Gallery, Guangzhou Second Life is the virtual scenario where China Tracy, avatar of the Chinese artist Cao Fei, creates a model of the city of the future. Visionary imagination and freedom in crossbreeding reality and imagination. Future by Design by William Gazecki, USA, 2006, 90’ Production and distribution: William Gazecki Italian debut for the film by Gazecki about Jacque Fresco, creator of futuristic cities where the architecture theorises new eco-systems and new forms of social integration. |
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