DE07 Film Programme + competition

16-24 October 2007

Baltic, Centre for Contemporary Art

Newcastle Gateshead, UK

   

Design Event presents a specially curated screening programme from film & new media curators Cinefeel.  An open call for submissions brought in hundreds of entries from international designers and filmmakers, and the programme includes cutting edge animations, digital shorts, architectural visualizations and music videos which relate to the festival theme "How do we want to live?"

     

Cinefeel are pleased to announce that the winner of the DE07 Film Programme is “Gardens by the Bay” by Squint/Opera, a London based production company specialising in films about architecture.  Originally commissioned by Grant Associates, “Gardens by the Bay” is a magical pinboard of design ideas for a landscape architecture competition in Singapore.

    

Other films in the programme include Zhenchen Liu’s “Under Construction” which exposes the human implications of Shanghai’s planning policy and its property developers heavy-handed operations; EB Hu & Qian T’s “Palingenesia” charts the impact man has on his environment as he evolves from the pastoral through to the industrial; and Robb Ellender’s “Illusion Dwellers” shares views from the homeless community about a world that marginalises them once they end up on the streets.

   

There’s also films dealing with more personal thoughts of how individuals choose to live, such as using objects as vehicles for dissident behaviour in Noam Toran’s “Desire Management”; the fear of getting old in Martin Schmidt’s “George Grows”; and how to overcome obsessive-compulsive behaviours in Martin Pickles’ “Like Me Only Better”.

    

The DE07 Film Programme ran from October 16-24 in the BALTIC's cinema and was viewed by over 5,000 people.  For more info and to see the winning entry, click here: www.design-event.co.uk

   

Full list of films:

  

GARDENS BY THE BAY  Squint/Opera

LIKE ME, ONLY BETTER  Martin Pickles

DESIRE MANAGEMENT  Noam Toran

UNDER CONSTRUCTION   Zhenchen Liu

THE COOLING TOWERS  Victoria Scales / Smoothe

KRIJT  Klaas Lageveen

VARIATIONS OF AN ATTITUDE  Adam Aiken

GEORGE GROWS  Martin Schmidt

RAY RAY  Armagan Ballantyne

ILLUSION DWELLERS Robb Ellender

TYGER  Guilherme Marcondes

PALINGENESIA  EB Hu & Qian T

    

Media partner: Creative Review.

  

 

Gardens by the Bay

 

Like Me, Only Better

 

Under Construction

George Grows

 

The Cooling Towers

 

 

For over ten years now, Cinefeel have programmed for festivals, events and arts venues, including the Pompidou Centre in Paris and both the National Film Theatre and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to MIDEM's Electronic Village and curating for Greenpeace at the Glastonbury Festival.

   

   

    

    
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