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Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny. 2022. Constant. [Film/Video]
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| Creators: | Litvintseva, Sasha and Wagner, Beny | ||||
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| Abstract or Description: | "Constant" is a journey through the social and political histories of measurement. For most of recorded history, the human body was the measure of all things. “Constant” asks what led measurement to depart from the body and become a science unto itself. The film explores three shifts in the history of measurement standardization, from the land surveying that drove Early Modern European land privatization, to the French Revolution that drove the Metric Revolution, to the conceptual dematerialisation of measurement in the contemporary era of Big Science. Each chapter traces the relationship of measurement standardization to ideas of egalitarianism, agency, justice, and power. Cinematic and technical images that begin as products of measurement systems are stretched beyond their functions to describe the resistance of lived experience to symbolic abstractions. |
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| Contributors: | Cailleau, Guillaume (Producer); Mastrandrea, Matteo (Animator) and Beatt, Cynthia (Narrator) | ||||
| Official URL: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcw84JxR3HU | ||||
| Additional Information: | Credits Produced by: Guillaume Cailleau for CaSk Films, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner 3D and point cloud animation: Matteo Mastrandrea Camera: Sasha Litvintseva Original music: dead hand / Additional music: Beny Wagner Narration: Cynthia Beatt Supported by: Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg; Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien Awards Best International Short Documentary, Guanajuato Film Festival, 2022 Main Award, Olomouc Festival of Science Documentary Film, 2022 Jury Special Mention, EXiS Seoul, 2022 Exhibition list CPH:DOX, NEW:VISION competition, Denmark, 2022 Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium, 2022 Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, 2022 Indie Lisboa Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022 Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK, 2022 First Look, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, 2022 Prismatic Ground, Maysles Documentary Center, New York, 2022 Ohlar de Cinema, Curitiba, Brazil, 2022 Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2022 EXiS Seoul, South Korea, 2022 Curtocircuito film festival, Spain, 2022 IMPAKT festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2022 Wexner Center for the Arts, USA, 2022 e-flux screening room, NYC, USA, 2022 Asia Cultural Center cinemateque, Seoul, South Korea, 2022 MUTA International Film Festival, Lima, Peru, 2022 Chicago Underground Film Festival, USA, 2022 Camden International Film Festival, USA, 2022 Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2022 FRONTDOC, Italy, 2022 Kurzfilmfestival Koln, Germany, 2022 Bangkok World Film Festival, Thailand, 2022 Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2023 InScience Film Festival, The Netherlands, 2023 Ginzaza, Tokyo, Japan, 2023 The Measure of the World, Radius CCA, The Netherlands, 2023 Chemist Gallery, London, 2023 Festival of Science Documentary Film, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2023 2 Annas Film Festival, Riga, Latvia, 2023 Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, 2023 Seoul Mediacity Biennale, South Korea, 2023 Taiwan Video Art Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan, 2023 |
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| Keywords: | Constant, #FirstLookFest, First Look 2022, Museum of the Moving Image, Science on Screen, #ScienceOnScreen, Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner, 3-D animation, documentary, science history | ||||
| Departments, Centres and Research Units: | Art | ||||
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| Item ID: | 35839 | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2024 09:05 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2024 09:05 | ||||
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