Through the international resonance triggered by the up-and-coming Film Festival in Hannover, it was possible to establish contacts with curators interested in cooperation in the WOUNDS & VISIONS OF A MEGALOPOLIS program. At previous festivals, this film series presented works from New York, Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Tokyo (1995), Manila, Melbourne, Mexico City, Seoul, Tehran (1997), Bangkok, Beijing, Bombay ,Chicago (1999), Bogotá, Moscow, Singapur, Dakar (2001), Shanghai, London, Los Angeles, Reykjavik (2003), Amsterdam, Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur, Montréal (2005).
The program WOUNDS & VISIONS OF A MEGALOPOLIS is presented as a special event in cooperation with the Lotto Foundation of Lower-Saxony.
Idea and realization: Harald inHülsen
WITH NIGHTFALL, DECAY SEEPS INTO THE MEGALOPOLIS REVEALING ITS VISION, ITS SCAR
by Harald inHülsen
No stars, no funding, but a vision.
Visualized contemporary moods of young film makers, authors and sound artists from international mega-cities, where the cityscape merges with heliopolis. In the films, literature and sound experiments by young artists to premiere at Wounds & Visions the cities are dissected, analyzed and penetrated. We as viewers experience the megalopolis from the inside out. The wounds, the visions of the young generation, shattering the mirror they hold up to the city and maintaining their self-esteem. They are especially eager to describe the extraordinary, the mystical, the astonishing in their urban caves.
The young artists from Bombay and Cairo are travelers. They orientate themselves through images, sounds and language on site, where the broad beach of broken dreams and visions has been paved over in urban asphalt.
