Curtain Call
Overview of films
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A Creak in Time
Inspired by the famous Eames film Powers of Ten, McInerney explores the boundaries of perception, from the smallest atom to the remotest corners of
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The credit crunch did not really affect island nation Tuvalu, but climate change is bringing it down all too literally now. Yet online it might sti
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The Landscape Is Empty and Emptiness Is Landscape
The Chilean Atacama Desert provides the backdrop for a series of static shots that foreground emptiness. The natural setting becomes a mental space
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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 Night in All Things
The light bulb had already confused our biorhythms. Surrounded by luminous screens even in the bedroom, the threshold between night and day, dream
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Silent Room
A long matt-black building offers an immersive experience of silence and peace, forming a black hole in the sensory overload of its outside environ
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The Cognitive Era
Our emotions are increasingly being turned into commodities, manipulated by global corporations. This hack of an IBM commercial suggests how. Scree
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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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Polte
From a few surviving images from the Finnish film Fallen Asleep When Young (1937), an other-worldly melodrama is distilled. Passion, deeply hu
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Nematodes
Peter Burr is fascinated by endlessly mutating labyrinths. For this digital animation about the networked life of worms he collaborated with a para
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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.
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AlphaGo
When an algorithm repeatedly beats the holder of 18 international titles Lee Sedol at the board game Go, that isn’t just an anecdote for the