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Welcome to the Nature of Cities Festival 2024! A gathering to get inspired, to learn, to present, collaborate, or to meet hundreds of new best friends and urban nature co-conspirators. The Berlin segment is an all-inclusive multi-day experience featuring field-trips, in person talks, workshops, art interventions, a film festival, Farm-to-Table dinners, various opportunities for socializing, and much more. All of it takes place at the Atelier Gardens venue, and various other locations around Berlin.

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Wednesday, June 5 • 08:00 - 09:30
Short Film Program 3 – Radical Communication

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Welcome to part 3 of our 5 part short film program! Today the Forum for Radical Imagination on Environmental Cultures at TNOC presents a collection of short artist films that draw us into three radically different modes of ecological communication. This screening program includes an artist discussion with Robin Lasser (Oakland, California), Patrick M. Lydon (Daejeon, Korea), and Chisai Fujita (Kyoto, Japan) about the films, along with audience Q&A, and the opportunity to write postcards to nature with Robin.

The three films presented today are:

Ice Ships Weep: Climate’s Ballad
by Robin Lasser / 15 minutes
In this moving three-part meditation of sound and visuals, melting ice ships slowly sink, their inky residue resembling burnt landscapes that are at once messages, questions, and reflections on our climate fabricated fire, ice, and water storms.

The Water Goddess and the Punk Tree Gods
by Patrick M. Lydon / 7 minutes
When a water goddess calls upon the local Tree gods with a request, they respond with a message to the people of the city in the form of a punk song, blending whimsy and cultural lore in a celebration urban-nature interconnectedness.

NPV
by Osamu Kokufu / 7 minutes
Dreams meet reality in this fascinating minimalist documentary adventure, as the late Japanese artist Osamu Kokufu blurs the line between reality and imagination through a wind-powered vehicle of his own invention, called the Natural Powered Vehicle (NPV).
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Don't miss this extraordinary lineup of films that challenge conventional storytelling and inspire conversations on radical communication.
Berlin (in person) Speakers
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Chisai Fujita

writing, journalist, researcher about contemporary art, Art Plus inc.,
If you want to know about Art in Asia, please tell us! English and 中文 ok 😊

Artists
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Carmen Bouyer

Arts Co-Director, The Nature of Cities
Hello, I am an artist based in Paris and art curator at The Nature of Cities. I am passionate by all the cultural ways that strengthen our relationships with each other as humans across variety of cultures and practices, as well as with wide diversity of non-human life forms, especially... Read More →
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Osamu Kokufu

Born in 1970 in Kyoto city, Japan, Kokufu's artistic journey was suddenly cut short at the age of 44 during maintenance of his artwork. His body of work leaves behind a legacy that reflects a profound dedication to the intersection of imagination and reality. During his life, Kokufu... Read More →
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Patrick Lydon

Arts Co-Director, The Nature of Cities
An ecological artist and urbanist based in Korea, Patrick helps re-discover our role as ecological beings through story, film, illustration, and community-centered landscape interventions. Together with Suhee Kang, he founded the creative urban ecology studio called City as Natu... Read More →
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Robin.Lasser

Artist
Lasser produces photographs, video, sound art, site-specific installations, and public art dealing with public health, environmental issues and social justice. Lasser often works in a collaborative mode with other artists, writers, students, public agencies, community organizations... Read More →

Wednesday June 5, 2024 08:00 - 09:30 EDT
In-Person Berlin
  Arts & Film Festival

Attendees (28)