Urban Displacement
1:Pigeon 2:Cultural Quarter 3:BOOM! The Sound of Eviction 4:Industrial Strength 5: Buitenland Campsite (drijf-in-cinema)
1:PIGEON
Reggy Timmermans, Beatrijs Albers, B., 2002, 2'
The title says it all.
2:CULTURAL QUARTER
Mike Stubbs, UK, 2003, 10'
It is a perfect summer's day. From a bedroom window we gaze on a group of families enjoying themselves in their own recreation. Is th road they play in a public or private place? Who owns it? Are they aware they are being filmed?? Cultural Quarter presents the relationships of observation in the city to its citizens, whilst begging ethical questions on surveillance, the gaze and human behaviour. Within the very current phenomena of city marketing and 'regeneration', Cultural Quarter exposes some of the gaps between developers' dreams and citizens' perceptions of what cultural space means and how to use it.
3:BOOM! THE SOUND OF EVICTION
San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network, USA, 2002, 60'
BOOM explores the relationships between the dot-com boom (and bust) and community displacement and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the largely working class and Latino Mission District. By turns humorous and scathing, Boom delves into the ironies and contradictions of the "New Economy" and delivers a potent social critique that is ambitious in its scope while remaining close to the human scale.
4:INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH
Laurie Petrou, Canada, 2003, 8'
This video is a response to the notion that machine aesthetics can be read and were read as a metaphor for the fascist politic. It draws on research involving the Futurists, icons, army formations, language and aesthetics of the National Socialists, as well as examination of the functions and semiotics of machinery.
5:BUITENLAND CAMPSITE (DRIJF-IN-CINEMA)
0:00 - 02:00 The man who fell to earth
Nicolas Roeg,
Location: Nieuwe Meer Amsterdam
Bring a boat and an FM radio
