(Re)membering the riots in Afrikaanderwijk in 1972 or guest, host, ghos-ti
Remembering what was forgotten: the 1972 riots in the Rotterdam neighbourhood of Afrikaanderwijk.
45'
Netherlands
IFFR 2024
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.
IFFR 2024
- 20'
- Netherlands
- 2024
- Director
- Elian Somers
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2024
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 20'
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Elian Somers
- Sales
- Elian Somers
- Editor
- Elian Somers
- Music
- Rutger Zuydervelt
- Director
- Elian Somers
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2024
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 20'
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Elian Somers
- Sales
- Elian Somers
- Editor
- Elian Somers
- Music
- Rutger Zuydervelt
Programme IFFR 2024
RTM
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47'
Netherlands
IFFR 2024
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A poetic tribute to the resistance of Palestinian hunger strikers and asylum seekers.
23'
Netherlands
IFFR 2024