In the technically most modern medium of the day, the inhabitants of houses that have been bombed are given seemingly archaic instructions on how to build a domestic hearth.
Fragments of a film about technology used in televison. In their decontextualized form, the carefully planned shots are bestowed with something enigmatic which is reminiscent of films by Bruce Connor.
In the early days of German television there were very few receivers. The general public watched television collectively in so-called 'Fernsehstuben' (televison lounges) of which there were two types. In the more simple versions there was just a television, but there were also some places with bigger screens which used mirrors to enlarge the images and in the fragments of this film it is one of these which is shown.
The 41 minutes long take Earth is a filmic tableau vivant, a dreamlike rendition of a pile of waste and matter with living human beings lying about in clusters, almost motionless.
Utama - Every Name In History Is I is a film about the founding of Singapore. In the indigenous Malay tongue, ‘Singa’ means lion, while ‘pore’ is derived from the word ‘pura’, or city.
Symbol of isolation, doubled by the sublime landscape and the complex spiritual background, the Altiplano region in Chile is the main character in the film. It represents a self-sufficient being, and the film is this being's portrait.
Based on a text from the recent Egyptian novel The Revolution of 2053 by Mahmoud Uthman, and referencing a scene from Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962), a time-traveller recounts his vision of the future of the Pyramids area.