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International Competition
Documentary
# 6 |
Monday 9, Aprile 2018 / 8 pm
Z Bar
Berlin / Germany
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Stare into the Light My Pretties |
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Jordan Brown
USA
2017 | 2:08:00
We live in a world of screens. More of us would know this, if we look
up, and look around. The screens are everywhere, pervasive: Fingers
that are glued to the screen which are glued to the eyes which are
glued to the screen. We use them for work, play. But it’s much more
than that. The screens use us, too. How did we get here? And where’s
this journey leading us? What does that even look like? And is it what
we want? Is this culture’s technology changing us and our societies
for the better? Does it empower all of us—like it claims to—or does it
only empower a select few at the expense of the many? What’s the price
we pay to live in this pervasive electronic world?
This era is unprecedented, and perhaps never before has technology
been so prolific and shaped our lives so intimately. But there’s a
dark side we don’t talk about. Why is that? Is it because we’re too
busy being glued to the screen? Why do we shy away from questions
about our collective addiction? What’s lurking under the surface?
Could it be that with this era, the stakes have also never been so
high that we’ve got it all wrong?
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| GERMAN PREMIER |
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Aprile 7 - 9, 2018
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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