The idea of an urban development project based on a fully automated society in which human labour has become unnecessary no longer sounds utopian. City Rising is a meditation on life, love, work and privacy in neo-liberal times. The starting points are Constant Nieuwenhuys’ architectural maquettes for his ‘New Babylon’.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- File
