And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
From the camera obscura to television and film, all the way to the culture of the selfie and non-stop live streaming.
This dynamic cinematic essay takes us on a roller-coaster ride through chilling, frenzied, and variously fabricated images of reality. They can hypnotize, mobilize, and sometimes even suppress our instinct for self-preservation. Why do we succumb to them en masse, and how can we learn to deal with them better? According to the latest documentary by these two award-winning European filmmakers, in the era of the mass spread of mobile phone cameras, our relationship to photography and video has not necessarily reached its decadent end – perhaps it is just going through puberty.
Read moreSundance Film Festival
2023 – Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck (World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award – Creative Vision)
Berlin International Film Festival
2023 – Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck (AG Kino Gilde - Cinema Vision 14plus)
Seattle International Film Festival
2023 – Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck (Youth Jury Prize for Best Futurewave Feature)
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