Urban Research At Directors Lounge
Program 2: The Future is Now, the City Imagination
Wednesday, 15 February, 18h
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Directors Lounge at Naherholung Sternchen
Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte

The city we live in consists of much more than what we directly experience, and the program dealing with this idea "naturally" turns out to be divers and colourful. The things we see, the social environment we live in and experience is only one part of our "life in the city". The other part consists of news, media, stories, gossip, and an increasing number of images, shared and received on public and private channels. Thus, life in the city (let's call it a specific city: Berlin, Hamburg, London, L.A., or Singapor, you name it) does not turn into a storyline, I don't live "the story of my life", but it turns into a multifaceted image. As a consequence, we might say, city life in large parts is made of private and public, shared and unshared imaginations.

- Beate Hecher, AT, Silent Circles, 3 min 00, 2007
- Marjorie Hernandez Tejada, VE, Here, 5 min 48, 2011
- Curtis Burz, DE, I Never Told You What I Do For A Living, 12 min 11, 2010
- Hirakawa Youki, JP, Depth of Whisper, 4 min 00, 2011
- Alastair Cook, UK, Filmpoem 15, 02 min 07
- Petra Lottje, DE, Go West, 1 min14, 2007-2011
- Henry Gwiazda, US, Infectious, 2 min 03, 2009
- Henry Gwiazda, US, ThankfullyŠŠFinally, 3 min 10, 2009
- Isabelle Martin, BE, Tu As Loué Une Voiture Pour Pleurer (Crying In Our Cars), 15 min 00, 2010
- Ayman Nahle, LB, Myths of Everyday, Page 5, 2 min 15, 2011
- Ayman Nahle, LB, Myths of Everyday, Page 8, 2 min 02, 2011
- Klaus W. Eisenlohr, DE, Phantasma Pripyat, 13 min 23, 2011
- Monika Rechsteiner, CH, To Be Continued, 32 min 00, 2011
- Jaime Rguez, ES, Transit, 3 min 43, 2011
- Suman & Sourav, [TAXI], IN, Swimming Around, 2 min 35, 2009

Find more infos on the films and the program at:
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2012/framesUrbanResearch.html

The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2012
9-19 February 2012
open daily from 18:00
daily program, screening, installations, bar, lounge and music
doors free until 10 pm
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