Selection #2

Symphonious Cities / Urban Ecologies

101 mins

Urban spaces playing host to political mobilizations and shifting environs. Its quasi-static visual characteristic is revealed through photography or filmic interventions of altered temporalities and material assertions. Everything oscillates between impermanence and stasis.

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Fri 22 Oct

18:00 - 19.40 / ACUD STUDIO

Yan Wai Yin
TUGGING DIARY
Hong Kong, 2021, 16’ 00, digital, German Premiere.

Tugging Diary holds a loose documentation of a footbridge in Hong Kong corresponding to the Hong Kong protest, also known as the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. As the rallies and strikes are often conducted without central leadership, both digital channels and physical spaces have become platforms to circulate information to a wider public. As time goes by, these materials are continuously altered, some are renewed, while the others are removed, covered with paint, or overlaid with other information.

Zachary Epcar
THE CANYON
USA, 2021, 15’ 00, 16mm, digital projection, Berlin Premiere.

A portrait of the urban residential development as it slips into oblivion.

Nicky Hamlyn
DANSAERT
Belgium, 2021, 26’ 00, 16mm, silent, digital projection, World Premiere.

A chronological study of the view from a single window, shot over eighteen months and making extensive use of time-lapse filming. The work is underpinned by Siegfried Kracauer's assertion that we can never exhaust the field of view.

Daniel A. Swarthnas
DEAD END
USA, 2021, 14’ 00, super8, 16mm, digital projection, German Premiere.

Dead End is a fragmentary, cursorial and transient style film—edited in-camera—that seeks to present an unusual portrait of one of the world’s most recognisable cities, New York. The visual texture is augmented by graffiti, flags, industrial premises, dirty streets, traffic and construction sites: the full flux of the urban landscape. The aural scape is defined by field recordings of demonstrations, police sirens, traffic noise and subways commingling, allowing for marginal distinguishability. A framing style where architectural constructs are diagonally framed harks back to the 1920s Avant-garde city symphonies. A bridge to the past, through a fractured experience of the present. The film was shot in 2016.

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