transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH

Looking beyond the alarmist scenarios of environmental, social and economic catastrophes to be expected in the wake of global warming, the essential question isn't that of how to avoid these processes, but to examine the need for a fundamental shift in cultural perception with respect to nature, culture and technology. With DEEP NORTH, transmediale.09 focused on the impact and unavoidable consequences of this pending global transformation - the crossing of a point of no return akin to the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago.

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tm.09 DEEP NORTH ...thank you!

With artists, speakers and visitors from across the globe transmediale wrapped up at Berlin's landmark 'House of World Cultures' on February 1, 2009. We would like to thank all of our participants, partners, contributors, and the many great teams that came together to set up and run such a complex, poetically charged and thought provoking event!
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film / video tm.09: Screening Territories

Under the leitmotif Screening Territories the film and video section of transmediale.09 explores the theme of this years' festival. Together with the works from the international competition and a series of compilation programmes by invited guest curators , the programme includes more than 70 current productions by international artists.

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Deep Space Recordings

Wed 28.01.2009 - 14:00

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Screening

Deep Space Recordings

Re: Nature

Wed 28.01.2009 - 18:00

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Screening

Field Textures

Thu 29.01.2009 - 13:00

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Screening

Distant Grounds

Thu 29.01.2009 - 16:00

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Screening

Falling Relations

Fri 30.01.2009 - 13:00

Culture Panic

Fri 30.01.2009 - 16:00

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Screening

Melting Fridges Part I

Fri 30.01.2009 - 18:30

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Talk

The refrigerator is among the most important technical achievements of everyday life and thus extends the so-called cooling chain. By means of this chain it is possible to preserve and eat perishable food independent of the time of year and to thus prevent typical nutritional deficiencies. In the 1950s the refrigerator, in addition to the car, television, and washing machine, symbolised the domestic modernity of the 'economic miracle'. Nevertheless, the electric refrigerator is a paradox: It cools its interior by heating up its surroundings and thereby becomes a reflection of a desolate progress-oriented society which enjoys its luxury on the inside at the cost of destroying its environment on the exterior.

Transit Spaces

Sat 31.01.2009 - 12:00

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Screening

Melting Fridges Part II

Sat 31.01.2009 - 15:00

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Screening

In addition to the regulation of warmth and cold, speed is a second core aspect of the destruction of the environment. Cars, airplanes, and rockets function according to a simple principle: The faster they go, the more pollutants they give off. But the loss of inexpensive mobility due to limited energy resources would effect us more than all other limitations put together.

State / s of Emergency

Sat 31.01.2009 - 17:30

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Screening

Besides indicating a geographical direction, 'Deep North' is a powerful metaphor describing a state of paralysis in which an individual, a group or even a whole nation can find themselves as a result of being cut-off from the greater
other. Indeed restrained contact with the outside world creates a state of isolation comparable to the common image of the northern hemisphere.

Optical Vacuum

Sun 01.02.2009 - 14:00

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Screening

Recipes for Disaster/ Katastrofin Aineksia

Sun 01.02.2009 - 17:00

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Screening

Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family go on a one -year 'oil diet', without having to give up their middle class suburban lifestyle. All the everyday things that we don't do, or that we cannot help doing, make up recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors, they find themselves questioning their values and putting their willpower and, ultimately, their happiness to the test.

transmediale.09 video selection

Sun 01.02.2009 - 19:30

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Screening

The transmediale.09 video selection includes video works that come from a broad range of submissions to this year's festival competition, which will be presented worldwide in the annual tour programme in a similar constellation.