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dc.date.accessioned2015-07-14T08:21:21Z
dc.date.available2015-07-14T08:21:21Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-04
dc.identifier.citationMarsh , L-M , Anna and the Tower : Solo Exhibition, Toronto International Film Festival , 2014 , Exhibition , Toronto International Film Festival , Toronto . < http://tiff.net/thefestival/filmprogramming/programmes/futureprojections >
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/16152
dc.description.abstract"Anna and the Tower" is a co-commision with the Toronto International Film Festival and the Goethe Institute for exhibition as part of the 2014 International Festival. "Anna and the Tower" is a fable of isolation and imaginative affect. Conflating documentary and performance, it stages an encounter with Anna, a young air traffic controller, during her working hours in the air traffic control tower at Magdeburg-Cochstedt International. The video is filmed on location in the tower of this refurbished airport, newly opened in 2010. Dating from 1957, the airport is a former soviet airbase located in the middle of the Eastern German countryside. Although it is now a fully operational and technologically updated airport, there are very rarely any scheduled flights. The airport and tower lie quiet and still awaiting air traffic, speculating on an economy to come at some point in the near future. The work can be read as a meditation on the former ‘west’ in the European context and aspiring economic experiments in the former ‘east’. In the absence of any real air traffic to control, Anna’s ‘speech acts’ point to a desire to ‘will’ events into being. The video suspends ordinary time through models of projection and prediction, setting productive forces into motion with the desire to shape reality. Her persistence speaks to this anticipation for an optimistic futurity that may or may not arrive.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherToronto International Film Festival
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dc.subjectFine Art
dc.subjectVisual Art
dc.subjectvideo installation
dc.titleAnna and the Tower : Solo Exhibition, Toronto International Film Festivalen
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Creative Arts
dc.contributor.institutionSocial Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute
dc.contributor.institutionArt and Design
dc.contributor.institutionResearch into Practice
dc.contributor.photographerMarsh, Lynne-Marie
dc.identifier.urlhttp://tiff.net/thefestival/filmprogramming/programmes/futureprojections
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