Cities of Gold and Mirrors
The Mexican city of Cancún, founded in 1970, offers a landscape infused with a spirit of anachronism and ruin. While hedonistic young American tourists invoke a contemporary discourse of decadence and decay, the glass-and-steel hotels built upon the physical ruins of the mighty Mayan Empire articulate a historicised vision.
Also in this combined programme
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Remisequenz
Brief, associative animation conjures up a colourful world of reality and fiction, recognisability and abstraction. -
Prim Limit
An alarming message. Existentialist problems have entered Second Life and waste disposal has to be tackled too. -
Thalé
The future is not what it used to be. A catalogue of botanical fantasies like a space-age herbarium. -
The Ascent of Man
Artist Tommy Hartung uses Darwin’s theory of evolution as a framework for a stimulating, non-linear, stop-motion animation. -
Insideout
You’re never alone with a camera. Insideout is a poetic mash-up of existential confessions from the depths of the YouTube jungle.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Mexico, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 9'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
