ETHICS: What can a festival’s Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?
HELL: Is it possible to simultaneously touch on four major themes, such as sin and evil, the desire for knowledge and conquest, relationships and competition, or the fear of death itself? Let me try in this essay – about Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Dante.
FESTIVALS: Can documentaries be a part of de-powering – «destitution» – most needed in today’s power-driven societies?
MULTIPLICITY: Can a gadget materialism reconstruct a collective societal thought?
EDITORIAL: Fearing increasing control and surveillance, Hong Kong’s liberal population has experienced the growing presence of Communist China.
As a filmmaker he has had a significant impact on many of us. In a progressively militarized and technified world, Kubrick remains highly relevant.