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Utopia in Babelsberg - Science Fiction aus der DDR

DEFA made several science fiction films that are hardly known today. These productions, called "utopian films" in the GDR, show astonishing technical achievements. ...Science fiction at DEFA was never a war of the stars,

Local Dystopias in the Global Utopia

In an expansive desert, a unique cinematic experience comes to life on dome screens, each narrating a dystopian architectural story. Explore "High Rise Cult," where fragile skyscrapers float on balloons, "The Doomed City

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Marinaleda The land of utopia

Marinaleda, a community of 2645 inhabitants in Andalusia, has no unemployment, no policemen, housing, work, culture, education and health are considered a right. "The land belongs to no one, the land is not bought, the l

El Shatt – A Blueprint for Utopia

Hundreds of frozen and starved people floating on boats in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea fleeing from the war... Familiar scenes that we are used to seeing in recent times. But the year is 1944, and the refugees ar

Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs

Southern California’s Coachella Valley, including the communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, boasts hundreds of extraordinary midcentury modern homes, public buildings and commercial structures. Mo

Bauhaus World: The Code, the Effect, the Utopia

What do escalators in Medellín, Arabic lettering in Amman, story-telling furniture from London, urban farming in Detroit and a co-living complex in Tokyo have to do with the Bauhaus? The architect Walter Gropius founded

Utopia: Live at the Royal Oak

Philly rocker Todd Rundgren (armed with Eric Clapton's Gibson SG guitar) is captured in a live, sold-out concert with Utopia at Detroit's Royal Theater in 1981. The 12-song set includes "One World," "Road to Utopia," "Ba

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A Note 3: Network Utopia?

The anonymity on the Internet allows LGBTQIA people to interact without exposing their identities. It can be seen as a better "rainbow utopia" than the real world. Three gay guys in this film also met each other in this

Ama Romanta: Uma Utopia que Fazia Discos

In the second half of the 1980s, an Portuguese independent music publisher was created, Ama Romanta. It was the alternative to the hidden censorship of the big label industry and its founder was João Peste (the charismat

There's No Place Like Utopia

Why did Dorothy follow the yellow brick road? Film maker Joel Gilbert journeys across America to find out what's at the end of the Progressive rainbow - Utopia or something far worse? From the ruins of Detroit to the slu

Discovering Utopia: Lost Archives of Soviet Design

The film DISCOVERING UTOPIA tells the previously untold story of the VNIITE – the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics. Formed in the USSR in 1962 it brought together most progressive Soviet de

Queer Utopia: From Stonewall to Tell Garden

When words fail to articulate the meaning of “queerness,” silence is the answer to an impossible coming out. This essay film ponders the place of queer utopia in a world of difference and privilege. The wandering eye of

Uplands: Utopia I.O.U.

Join Krankie, Gellax, Shiny and Schrodinger's Oscillator, for a dark, trash-pop tale of suspected murder, fabricated from physical and mental detritus found around the warehouses. A leaky landfill-spillage of lifestyle t

Barbarian Utopia: Encounters on the Appalachian Trail

A recent college graduate documents his challenging experience hiking all 2,185 miles of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and explores how that trail came to be.

Climate Art - From Protest to Utopia

CLIMATE ART explores how contemporary art engages with the climate crisis. Journalist Leonie Sontheimer visits influential artists like Olafur Eliasson, Sebastião Salgado, and Agnes Denes, whose works inspire new perspec

Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American Architecture

In 1982, at the height of the postmodernist adventure in architecture we visit 4 practices: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves and Peter Eisenman – all protégés of Philip Johnson. These in

Anou Banou or The Daughters of Utopia

Using films and clips from interviews, the film documents the history of the Israeli state, and in particular, the place of women in Israeli society. Looks at six particular women who emigrated from Tsarist Russia or Pol