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(c) melanie bonajo, Progress vs Regress, 2016, Full HD single channel video + sound, 53:57 min., Courtesy the artist & AKINCI

Melanie Bonajo

Progress vs. Regress

Lokal im Mousonturm

Screening/Film

What if the elders of society are the real technology experts? As witnesses of enormous industrial and technological changes, Melanie Bonajo makes them the subject of her film. Selfie-sticks meet walkers, personal anecdotes from the last 85 years intersect common narratives of progress. So much for “digital natives” – the grey-haired so-called silver surfers demonstrate their media competence, which has grown over the years, and crack jokes so hard that the smileys just giggle across the screen.

Duration: 60 min
Language: Dutch with English subtitles
Intro in German

The film screening takes place in the context of the performance Die Vielhundertjährigen (The Many-Centenarians.)