The attempt to proclaim a new geological era, the Anthropocene, and thus to place our influence on the earth at the center of a new epoch, has failed. The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) rejected this year's proposal.
The film program LOOK AT US! spans an arc of ideas from the beginnings of the industrial age, through human exploitation and the neglect of ecological aspects of our lifestyle, to today's agricultural models and the philosophies of the digital age and their effects on our living space.
After the screening, we want to explore how we would describe a new era, if not with Anthropocene, in conversation with the filmmakers and students. (Afsun Moshiry)
Accidented laborers are looking at us: How do they feel? What are their hopes? What does the future hold for them? Every line on their faces is sculpted by life itself. In contrast, a system full of danger and injustice looms over their head.
… >>>AGRIS is a documentary short film that takes a look at the winter fields of a community-supported agriculture. It observes the atmosphere, structures and materialities of the place and the work carried out there by the gardeners.
… >>>An interwoven journey through Earth's formation and personal family history, mirrored by a robot on Mars studying the planet's material memory until it succumbs to dementia itself. The video essay explores geological gaps, digital glitches, and the neurological loss of memory as different facets of the constant fragmentation.
… >>>A mysterious community of animals performs rituals in a church's basements, sheltered from humans. These animals have chosen to live self-sufficiently in this cellar. They each recount their personal stories, alternating between translations of personal experiences, autobiographical narratives from a cat’s perspective, and transcend between documentary storytelling, and complete fiction.
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