Charting the legacy of Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos Doxiadis, visual artist Elian Somers has crafted an equally introspective and critical installation that explores how utopian thinking can be usurped by state propaganda. By linking Doxiadis’ ‘ekistic’ concepts of the ‘Ecumenopolis’, a world-encompassing city of the future, to the Cold War propaganda of The Ford Foundation, Somers retraces buried historical layers, revealing the pervasive ideologies lurking in the remnants of the past.
– Hugo Emmerzael
This work will be screened in combination with the works Evocations & Lamentations by Janilda Bartolomeu and Touch’M by Giovanni Maisto Ferreira. All works are visible for free during RTM Day on 26 January in LantarenVenster 6.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 20"
- Medium/Format
- -
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