Dreams Rewired
Tracing anxieties about technology back to the 1880s, DREAMS REWIRED combines clips from nearly 200 films and newsreels with an insightful commentary by Tilda Swinton on our eternal love/hate relationship with a hyper-mediated world.
Casts & Crew
Tilda Swinton
Also Directed by Martin Reinhart
Tx-transform is a new film technique that transposes the time axis (t) and the space axis (x) with one another in film. Normally, each individual frame of film depicts the entire space but only a moment in time (1/24 second). With tx-transformed films, it is just the opposite: each frame shows the entire time but only a tiny portion of space (the left side of the picture is "before", the right side is "after"). —Virgil Widrich
What happens in a cinema when you film it at a resolution of 10K with a 360° camera and reverse the spatial and temporal axes? "tx-reverse" shows the collision of reality and cinema in which the order of space and time is suspended.
Also Directed by Manu Luksch
Awed by the observation of the impact of a powerful virus on human life and culture, the two artists imagined a future where such viral forces are harnessed as communication agents of “information infection”. Their film envisions a "Viral Communication Network", which unites people and empowers them to rebuild a collective life that has been ravaged by unregulated capitalism (where gains are private and losses are public).
A hip hop musical, shot in Dakar, using Senegalese musicians and artists, which deconstructs comprehensive threats to human rights posed by the rise of the algorithmic management of daily life via social media and online platforms.
In an eerily familiar city, a calendar reform has dispensed with the past and the future, leaving citizens faceless, without memory or anticipation. Unimaginable happiness abounds - until a woman recovers her face...
The 15th Vienna District: The downfall and demolish of the old Meisen open-air market where other things took place besides shopping. A camera-eye observes its disappearance, the excavator churns up the old shops, and with it unearths their stories.