Maya Schweizer / Clemens von Wedemeyer (D) Metropolis. Report from China (2004-06)

80% film 20% artist talk

Two image-worlds – fictitious and real. Two parallel political orders. With subtle cuts and dreamlike transitions, this documentary essay is an attempt to remake Fritz Lang’s legendary classic “Metropolis” as a collaged metaphor of human megalomania in China, in which political mythologies, economic pragmatics, urban development and utopian visions of the future are inseparably mixed.

This film screening takes place in context of the exhibition Communitas. Among Others at Camera Austria


Festival district: Cinema