Philip WIDMANN / digital / 30min. / 2017 (Germany / Japan)
　
A Japanese philosopher writes a letter to a famous German colleague. He asks the German to advise the Japanese people how to deal with the permeation of modern life by technology.
More than 50 years later, the same issues are being discussed among academics and aspiring engineers. It is hard to grasp how humans and technology continue to coexist.
Resorting to biographical trivia, mythological histories and the recounting of dreams is not helping them to see these issues any clearer. In the grainy images of the film, landscapes from an uncertain time appear, occasionally flooded by water and a cacophony of brass players. The uncontrollable finds its ways into a world that tries to minimise risks and thus creates new dangers.
　

Philip WIDMANN

Philip WIDMANN, born in West-Berlin in 1980, graduated in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hamburg and in Visual Communications from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. His works have been shown in art spaces and film festivals, among them the Wexner Center for the Arts, WRO Biennale Wroclaw, Berlin Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Mostra São Paulo, FID Marseille, CPH:DOX und Visions du Réel.

　

Schedule

TOKYO：5/4 21:15, 5/7 13:45　Q program
KYOTO：5/14 11:00　Q program
YOKOHAMA：6/18 18:30　Q program
NAGOYA：6/25 14:50　Q program