Commodity Culture
Combined programme
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IFFR 2018
Commodification is the transformation of goods, services, ideas and people into objects of trade. Some things ought not to be treated as commodities – education, information, data, knowledge and art. Not at any price.
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Soft Film
In Soft Film, the artist collects, arranges and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon colour, material, vintage -
AAA Cargo
Part-fiction documentary tracing the movements of the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions b -
Mountain Castle Mountain Flower Plastic
Experimental animation inspired by hard-drive prototypes, or how storage containers for memories are accidentally turning into an environmental film. -
Armageddon 2
The internet in Cuba is very slow. A green-hooded mystery man relies on a black-market system with USB drives to get his movie fix. -
Pure Difference
Pure Difference asks its viewers “What is a number?”. It deals with the inclination to rely on data as truth, reassurance, neutrality and security.&nb -
Art and Theft
Grappling with the constructed nature of storytelling, the playful collage of images on theft in Sara Magenheimer’s film distract us from the ma