This haunting video essay investigates the expansion of the internet in a small Romanian town, where communities have formed and shifted around the newly imported Western technology. Within this micro-universe, the video traces the rapid transformation of the Internet, from the early days of peer-to-peer software to the upload of online late capitalism. For the Rotterdam based Romanian artist Geo Barcan, probing the internet as a digital architecture for community becomes a way to critically explore the confluence of nature and technology.
– Hugo Emmerzael
Also in this combined programme
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The Radiant Screen
A poetic documentary about the Russian model city Ж, which exists shielded from reality.
Trailer
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, Romania
- Year
- 2024
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2025
- Length
- 15"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
Shows of "Surge of Transference"
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AvailableVideo on demandEN subtitledPress & Industry
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LantarenVenster 3
Main programme ‘Shadow Territories’ featuring the films:
- Red Dust
- The Radiant Screen
- Surge of Transference
In-personwith Q&AEN subtitled -
LantarenVenster 2
Main programme ‘Shadow Territories’ featuring the films:
- Red Dust
- The Radiant Screen
- Surge of Transference
In-personwith Q&AEN subtitled -
Pathé 3
Main programme ‘Shadow Territories’ featuring the films:
- Red Dust
- The Radiant Screen
- Surge of Transference
In-personwith Q&AEN subtitled -
Podium Islemunda – Theaterzaal
Main programme ‘Shadow Territories’ featuring the films:
- Red Dust
- The Radiant Screen
- Surge of Transference
In-personEN subtitled
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