Media artist McLean examines the media’s influence on our actions using home movies, YouTube videos and sci-fi films which demonstrate how individuals are increasingly enticed to give up their independence in a world which revolves around raising human productivity.
Also in this combined programme
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Dangerous Games
In a small house with oversized furniture, located in a rice field in Asia, some children wearing army clothes and carrying weapons start playing war. -
Poised
On the brink, considering diving’s metaphysical resonance as a rite of passage between the moment itself and imminent, inescapable change. -
Activated Memory I
‘Memory activation is the way that animals like us gain access to our knowledge.’ (David Gilden) -
The Room Called Heaven
Lovely West Coast melancholia in this loosely composed 16mm film that reveals a precise eye. The music works like a time machine.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 19'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
