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Dreams Rewired

Synopsis

Dreams Rewired traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination – promising total communication, the annihilation of distance, an end to war. But then, too, there were fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality.  

Using rare (and often unseen) archival material from nearly 200 films to articulate the present, Dreams Rewired reveals a history of hopes to share, and betrayals to avoid.
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Details

Year
2015
Type of project
Features
Running time
85 mins
Format
DCP
Director
Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode
Producer
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
Co-Producer
Linda Matern, Mukul Patel
Editor
Oliver Neumann
Screenwriter
Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode
Sound
Mukul Patel
Composer
Siegfried Friedrich
narrated by
Tilda Swinton

Genre

Experimental Climate / Environment Woman Director Science

Categories

Documentary Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Amour Fou VIENNA

BILDSCHÖN Filmproduktion
AMBIENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS Ltd

Sales Company

Amour Fou VIENNA

E: mukul23@gmail.com

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