Who remembers Trumpet Boy? It was first seen online in January 2018 and went viral with a series of image macros as a result. This and many other memes from 2018 can be seen in a meme rewind of 2018, selected by 15-year-old expert Tobias Kers, who explains the origins of the memes in this installation.
Also in this combined programme
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Octocat Story
In 2008, RANDYPETERS1, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago uploaded a hand-drawn animated video Octocat Adventures, about a red cat head with eight legs
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Meme-rIFFR
Eric Allen Hatch is a festival programmer and film critic who believes that making and appreciating memes can broaden knowledge and taste and so fa
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Slenderman Is Real // Slenderman Is Fake
What is truth? Based on fragments from the still expanding online Slenderman myth, the audience can itself decide what is real and what is not. See
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#MEMEPROPAGANDA Goes to Rotterdam
This interactive exhibition looks at the growing role of memes in digital society, focusing on meme characters.
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Get Your Views; Is This Meme Art?
Combining a digital art series with video art, the work humorously questions the power of consumerism in the post-internet age. The videos explore
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>be me
What stories do anonymous internet users share on internet forums? Come to >be me, where the special selection of ‘greentexts’
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
- None
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