Rotterdam 2040, film
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What is the future of the European cities like? What are the parameters which determine that future? What kind of life we want, and what do we get?
These are two basic questions that can serve as an introduction to the film "Rotterdam 2040" by a Dutch author Gyz La Rivière. With the speed that is unusual for the film media, but very often found in commercials or musical videos, La Rivière reconstructs the history of Rotterdam, the center of Dutch architectonic culture since the bombing in WWII until the present, while developing the narrative structure of the historical development into the script for the future all until 2040 (and this year is selected while it will be marking 100 years from the bombing and 700 years from the founding of Rotterdam).
La Rivière decided to read the history from his own, very personal perspective, which makes the film radical, a bit absurd, but simultaneously very authentic.
About author
Gyz La Rivière (1976, Rotterdam) is a Dutch artist who has been exhibiting since the second half of the 1990s. In his work Gyz investigates cultural and social signifiers and links them to his own (visual) data bases which emerge via computer animation, video games, leaflets, TV news, and series of other media excerpts. By dislocating images from their original context and arranging them into a new, autonomous context, Gyz creates hyper-realistic media installations.