Special Programme "Meeting with Tilda"  

What used to look like an utopia has become reality today. Phone, radio, cinema and television have secured a world in which we can share information instantly, despite the time and distance. More than 200 rare excerpts from cinema and television become a dynamic video essay on technology evolution and the ambiguous human relationship with it. Tilda Swinton narrates the story which is  ironically illustrated with archival material of the represantations of different inventions. Among the various communication tools that announce the progress of humanity, we can also see a device designed to measure the performance of human body at an industrial factory. In our dreamy world, “Every unnecessary movement is money wasted!”.

Awards

Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKer – Best IT Documentary, 2016 

Manu Luksch

Manu Luksch is an artist and filmmaker. Her widely acclaimed speculative fiction film
“Faceless (2002-07)”, compiled from CCTV footage recovered under the UK’s Data Protection Act, was also voiced by Tilda Swinton. Her work is included in the Collection Centre Georges Pompidou and on the Chris Marker website “Gorgomancy”.

Martin Reinhart

Martin Reinhart’s innovative exploration of film as artistic language is not limited to the making of films – he also develops hardware and processing solutions. His short films have been shown widely at media arts festivals. In his position as Curator for Photography at the Museum of  Technology in Vienna, Reinhart’s research led to the rediscovery of the soundtrack for “Battleship “Potemkin”, a famous movie by Sergei Eisenstein.

Thomas Tode

Thomas Tode works in Hamburg as freelance writer, curator and filmmaker. In his research and teaching (Universities of Hamburg, Zürich, and Vienna), he focuses on essay film, the Soviet  avant-garde, and political documentary film. Special interests are films on architecture, archeology.