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 Fred Pelon Nieuw babylon Eyediom Filmatelier Nederland 1999, 6' Look at people meeting themselves in time and space resisting feedback and alienating sounds. I made this film as a tribute to the Situationists movement/activists and their unfinished work: "leaving the 20th century". It's a critical view towards urbanism. Loops are shot at KNSM Island and Central Station both in Amsterdam. Urban life for me is an on-going struggle for the right to play against the background of ever increasing lack of real space and a growing amount of rules. To be a playful citizen easily becomes to be a disturbance: blocking the motion and therefore target for intense violence. Even the shooting of the film was repressed during the 3 minute shooting without permission inside Central Station Amsterdam. Three guards stood by with their ultimatum of two minutes before they would help me out the station, to move on. "Keeping traffic moving is the basic problem of modern cities. Keeping traffic moving is the opposite of allowing people to meet. One's status is assessed by the nature and the extent of one's personal mobility, hence we live in a part of power. The people at the top of the modern hierarchy are those who appear in three capitals in the course of one day" (excerpt from Situationist pamphlet 1969). Fred Pelon born on the 24-7-1961. He worked for Cinema de Balie and Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam. He founded the Amsterdam Pinkfilmday's in 1995 and organised, in December 1998, the program Heilig & Crimineel at the Balie in Amsterdam. This was based on the works of Jean Genet and Kenneth Anger. Typical in his work is the use of projection and re-shooting of the original material. Currently he works on the “The Dutch Act”, a short film about Suicide and Internet, supported by the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst. This film will be finished in summer 2000. |
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