Shiny aluminium and gold-coloured sheets were once a typical ingredient of aeronautic aesthetics. Nowadays most people identify it with an emergency blanket. The Shelter series attempts to redefine the typical Mylar blankets in different contexts: refugee essentials, warfare, hide-outs against drone heat scanners. Courtesy of Hans Drosterij and Karen Knispel (The Finest Amsterdam Contemporary Art Collection Ever).
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Untitled
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Untitled (Tea Set)
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Veronica
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Private Human
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Orbital Vanitas
Without any limiting sense of scale, the beauty of the earth, sun and stars is explored from inside an enormous human skull that is orbiting above
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Puppet Theatre
Blending modern architecture with elements of fairy-tale castles, this futuristic toy theatre also folds together into a rocket, pointing to the he
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Interregnum
Hordes of people discipline themselves into a long row or a slow parade. Grief is on their faces, but the reason for their distress remains a myste
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The White
Two white TV screens are reflected on a glass plate. That plate doesn’t show a white image, as could be expected, but two dark streams o
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A Timeline in Four Layers
A three-dimensional timeline introduces the rich history of future-oriented thought and practice from which the conceptual tools of futures studies
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Toynbee Convector
Photographic ‘images of a future’, shot in current reality to the detailed instructions of professional futurists, as a deliberately li
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toxiThropea
toxiThropea poetically researches the tense and toxic relationship between humans and nature and exposes our inability to maintain our only biosphe
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Red Balloons
A ladder defies gravity with the aid of two bright red balloons. Its triumphant pose is at the same time the denial of its very functionality.
Film details
- Year
- 2017
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- -
- Director
- Sarah van Sonsbeeck
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