Under Surveillance
Friday, 3 September, 13:00 - 14:25 / Kijkhuis 1
Saturday, 4 September, 10:00 - 11:40 / Kijkhuis 1
Surveillance is omnipresent within our society, the line between seer and seen is blurred. Gathering data on one’s online activity is automatic, drones regularly float in the sky, phones locate us faster than ever. This session gathers the experiences of human surveillance, paired with drone aesthetics, found footage collages, and AI conversations, and shows the consequences of surveilling or being surveilled.
On Saturday 4 September, Cyan Bae (Dear Chaemin) will join us for a Q&A.
Duration
85 min.
"One day, one hundred and fifty years ago, thousands of antelopes threw themselves into the sea together"
In a rural region of Hungary close to the Serbian border, an invisible danger looms—as any villager can tell you. Figures sneak across the fields, unknown cars are spotted, dogs in yards behave strangely, and children are scared when it gets dark.
A life insurance company uses an AI algorithm to determine the risk of a new applicant. The subsequent denial sparks a period of introspection for the individual in question.
Under Control shows the human action from the insect's level. A A A botanical garden is an artificial nature-like installation where each room has its own microclimate. Despite human attempts to control the environment, pests are spreading and eating the plants all over the garden.
"- You really loved him, didn’t you? - Yes. I stopped loving him not that long ago. (Interferences. Silences. Fissures. Two women talking. An radio-graphy)."
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a series of video letters are sent to the director’s sister in Seoul. Should we want to return to the ‘old normal’?