Post-Industrial

Cyril Schäublin, Valentin Merz: Modern Times
Switzerland, Germany 2013, exp. Documentary, hdv, color, 07:22 min

Paul Rowley: DMC-13
USA 2013, Video, dv, color, 09:22 min

Pascal Grandmaison: Soleil differé
Canada 2010, Video, hdv, black and white, 18:53 min

Sasha Pirker: Paperwork
Austria 2013, Documentary, hdv, color, 15:00 min

Anne Maree Barry: Missing Green
Ireland 2013, exp. Documentary, hdcam, color, 13:47 min

Mauricio Guillén: Avenida Progreso
Mexico 2012, Fiction, 16mm, black and white, 18:00 min

Cyril Schäublin and Valentin Merz film the site of an ancient charcoal mine in Zollverein, close to Essen, Germany. The chinese tourists visit the site, and discuss with an ancient miner. Paul Rowley uses images from a documentary on John DeLorean – an automobile builder who had opened a factory for luxury cars in Belfast, during utter turmoil in the North of Ireland. His dream of an affordable luxury car had collapsed when he was arrested for presumable cocaine trafficking. Pascal Grandmaison shoots in Montreal on the islands used for the Universal Exhibition in 1967, a symbol of utopic hope of a time when artificiality was synonymous with progress, prospect and human supremacy. The site, then transformed into an attraction park named “Land of Man”, was closed down in 1981. In this hybrid environment, savage nature reclaims its rights bit by bit. Sasha Pirker records the paper factory in Italy in Verzuelo and its social headquarters close to Turin, constructed upon the blueprints of Oscar Niemeyer, witness of an era when the service sector was beginning to take shape into industry. Anne Maree Barry crosses a road in Dublin, two parallel stories create a narrative. Mauricio Guillén follows an ethical philosophy professor down the streets of Mexico. His taxi winds up on Avenida Progreso, a main artery of the city. On his route, his idealism is confronted with the existence of corruption.

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