transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW!

Much of 20th century society strove to depict 2010 as a shining example of a future framed by technological progress and social harmony. But as 2010 arrived it was clear that global society was neither the utopia nor the dystopia traditionally presented. FUTURITY NOW! invited for the creation of new templates for the future and asked not what the future has in store for us, but what it is that we have in store for the future.

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transmediale.10 Film & Video programme

The film & video programme of transmediale.10 consists of eleven programmes with a total of 54 films of all genres. Feature, documentary, animation, experimental films and video art from 20 countries will be shown, with a special focus on the selection made from the 600 submissions from 30 countries... (more)

Media Personifications

Wed 03.02.2010 - 14:30

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Screening

The programme draws a panorama of media key figures of the 20th century, representing its utopias as much as their failures.

Inner Wars

Wed 03.02.2010 - 18:30

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Screening

Wars, which actually imply an interaction between people or nations, are not only destructive towards an exterior but also cause extreme repercussions towards the individual and collective psyche.

Agit-Prop, Punks and Poets: Digital Media between Film, Video and Activism in the Arab World

Thu 04.02.2010 - 14:30

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Screening

Guest curator Rasha Salti from Beirut is going to present the online platform Arabshorts.net and will discuss the relevance of digital media for the Arab world by means of seven video works.

Short Fictions

Thu 04.02.2010 - 18:30

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Screening

Short Fictions presents rare and epigrammatic science fiction shorts made by artists rather than by the film industry.

Long Distance Transfers

Fri 05.02.2010 - 14:30

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Screening

This programme presents three films all shot in Asia which address, in different ways, the communication between remotely distant worlds.

Studies in Light and Space

Fri 05.02.2010 - 18:30

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Screening

Four entirely different ways of appropriating light and space are at the core of this programme.

Future Bodies

Sat 06.02.2010 - 14:30

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Screening

This programme features four works that address the field of tension in which the human body is immersed in relation to the changing environments around it.

Man & Machine

Sat 06.02.2010 - 18:30

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Screening

The ten films within the curated programme Man & Machine address the conflicts between man and the technologies he himself has created.

Matinee: Der Schweigende Stern

Sun 07.02.2010 - 12:00

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Screening

In 1957 Hugh Stubbins designed the utopian architecture of the HKW as a conscious counterpart to the Stalin Allee in East Berlin. In the Matinée on Sunday the plot of the GDR's first Science Fiction film will unfold in this very building: Der Schweigende Stern (First Spaceship on Venus, 1959) by Kurt Maetzig pictures the dark vision of a failed civilisation.

The Succession of the Future

Sun 07.02.2010 - 15:00

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Screening

All films shown in this programme originate from post-socialist countries and reflect the encounter of Yesterday’s Society of Tomorrow – Socialism – with the reality of Today.