The Future of Forever
Mankind is at the verge of a major transition. Never before our species has been so powerful, and yet our planet is all but safe. Global feeling of reaching a dead end is taking its toll. Fears and utopias are growing fast. But, surprisingly, there are very few scenarios on the table. The supposed apocalypse of December 21, 2012 becomes an ironic starting point for an internationally based story of pioneers who have a plan for our species – on Earth and beyond. Their goal is to find the answer to the ultimate question: how can mankind survive and develop? Transhumanists who believe we should conquer death, space explorers hoping to invade Mars, and an outstanding group of geeks from the Silicon Valley, who believe that mind uploading can make us live forever. Sometimes on the verge of madness, both mystic and naive, all these people share a common idea: to overstep the limit of death and explore the unknown. What hides beneath their need to change human destiny? What if they succeed? Join us on an amazing, scientific journey and discover the future of mankind – wherever it lies: under Earth, or over Earth.
Dogs Are Not Barking in Finland
What would you do if the world was going to an end tomorrow? What would be your best memory? What would you regret? What would you wish to save? If you were to write down your story about our world and send it to future civilizations, what vision would you create? Dogs are not barking in Finland is a portrait of our world the day before the Apocalypse.
This unique documentary, set in four European capitals, is a story of crisis of the Western world, perceptions and evolution of concepts of Europe over the last decades. The leitmotif of the entire film is a quickly approaching end of the world. Main characters of the film, representing the 30-year-olds, living in Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels and Paris are being confronted with Doomsday scenarios, to speak about the world we are about to lose. What went wrong? What was our biggest achievement? What is worth saving? What destroyed us? The narrative includes original documentary footage and re-created archive footage as well as sublime contemporary portraits of four cities: Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels and Paris. Main speakers, similar to the characters from the famous Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch, show us in a new way the unstable world taking a turn that nobody expected. Why did we lose patience with this world? How can we change that? Or maybe, as a civilization, we are truly doomed?
This unique documentary, set in four European capitals, is a story of crisis of the Western world, perceptions and evolution of concepts of Europe over the last decades. The leitmotif of the entire film is a quickly approaching end of the world. Main characters of the film, representing the 30-year-olds, living in Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels and Paris are being confronted with Doomsday scenarios, to speak about the world we are about to lose. What went wrong? What was our biggest achievement? What is worth saving? What destroyed us? The narrative includes original documentary footage and re-created archive footage as well as sublime contemporary portraits of four cities: Warsaw, Berlin, Brussels and Paris. Main speakers, similar to the characters from the famous Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch, show us in a new way the unstable world taking a turn that nobody expected. Why did we lose patience with this world? How can we change that? Or maybe, as a civilization, we are truly doomed?
Crossed-Out Warsaw
Crossed-Out Warsaw is a transmedia project developed by a team of young Polish architects from Pictureworks Studio, who have been researching on modernist Warsaw for the last 5 years. The result of their passionate team work is a virtual, interactive journey through the alternative centre of Warsaw – capital of Poland. In their VR experience you can see a city that has never happened - it only existed on drawings and plans of some of the most brilliant architects of that era.
In 1918 the country of Poland, after 123 years under occupation, got back its independence and appeared again on the political map of Europe. 20 years later the construction of a new capital began. In the heart of Warsaw one man, architect Bohdan Pniewski, has started to make his dream about the most important district in the city come true.
The Government District was designed including buildings like The Parliament, The Temple of Divine Providence, foreign ministries, state embassies, and headquarters of important public institutions. In Pniewski's vision a long, monumental central axis ended with an impressive modernist Temple of Divine Providence, which next to The Notre Dame Cathedral would seem extraordinarily massive. On the opposite side of the main Avenue appeared another urban giant – the new headquarters of Polish Radio – which could have been one of the highest buildings in Europe of that time, similar to New York-based United Nations headquarters designed by Le Corbusier almost 10 years later.
Those and others magnificent buildings never got realized. A wonderful dream of a newborn country was interrupted by Second World War in 1939. A vision of a pioneer architect was gone forever. Until today - when we can experience it in virtual reality.
In 1918 the country of Poland, after 123 years under occupation, got back its independence and appeared again on the political map of Europe. 20 years later the construction of a new capital began. In the heart of Warsaw one man, architect Bohdan Pniewski, has started to make his dream about the most important district in the city come true.
The Government District was designed including buildings like The Parliament, The Temple of Divine Providence, foreign ministries, state embassies, and headquarters of important public institutions. In Pniewski's vision a long, monumental central axis ended with an impressive modernist Temple of Divine Providence, which next to The Notre Dame Cathedral would seem extraordinarily massive. On the opposite side of the main Avenue appeared another urban giant – the new headquarters of Polish Radio – which could have been one of the highest buildings in Europe of that time, similar to New York-based United Nations headquarters designed by Le Corbusier almost 10 years later.
Those and others magnificent buildings never got realized. A wonderful dream of a newborn country was interrupted by Second World War in 1939. A vision of a pioneer architect was gone forever. Until today - when we can experience it in virtual reality.