Foresight Filmfestival N° 4 on 26.9.2019 from 18:30 live broadcast and online voting here.
Livestream
An impressive jury
Submission deadline:
July 26, 2019
September 26, 2019
in Berlin
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Discussion Topic
2019
“Top – Down – Vision reaches City!”
Like looking at a city throbbing with diversity, in this years competition we want to dive into the different perspectives a city can offer. Following these years topic: „TOP – DOWN – Vision reaches City!“, we ask how we look at a city: from above or from underneath? How can the layers between top and bottom be brought together in unity? What happens in-between? How do images and visions of a city, living space, social life, working places, mobility, infrastructure, etc. change under the consideration of technical and social innovation?
Where will we live in the near future? How can you imagine your life in a future city? Will our transport system still be on the ground or already up in the air? Flying around in little space shuttles maybe even to the moon or dig ourselves into the underground, building shelters there? How can we manage to share our resources fair between us, and treat nature in a sustainable ecological way? How just will a future city be? How does economic, social and demographic change modify our urban environment? How does urban life change, if real space and virtual space begin to blend into each other? What do the worlds mega-cities look like, faced with a rapid grove of their population?
Will we live in a society of equality, where top and bottom means no social system, but dreams and ideas of creating a space for everybody in our cities? Your films can be answers to these important approaching questions of the future, the negotiation between technological progress and the needs of a society. Your visions of our world of tomorrow.
We are looking for filmic answers to urgent questions concerning our future. Show us your vision, told from a societal or technological standpoint or maybe as a combination of both. We are curious about your future scenario. How do you want or expect life to be in about 10 or 20 years?
Foresight Filmfestival requirements
For further information: Fact Sheet FORESIGHT FILMFESTIVAL_2019
Foresight
Science-Vision-Festival
The first Foresight Filmfestival was developed by the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg (Prof. Dr. Wehrspohn) and science2public, association for science communication. It was launched in 2015 and followed by a second cinematic discovery journey in 2016. Both expeditions (festival editions) were sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The topics for the cinematic debate emerged from the Foresight-Process initiated by the BMBF.
The Foresight-Process is a strategic tool for the prediction of future developments. In its latest Foresight discussion, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) examined the potential for scientific and technological development over the next ten to fifteen years from two sides: the technological possibilities (“technology push”) on the one hand and the needs of society (“demand pull”) on the other hand.
Foresight serves in particular as a contemporary instrument of dialogue because, after all, nobody can predict the future.
In light of the nature of exponentially growing technological development (keywords: digital revolution, second modernity, industry 4.0) and its impacts on all areas of life, it is becoming clear that many questions still remain unanswered and that it requires the continual understanding of society to know where all of this should lead. It is not enough for science and society to brainstorm together, it is imperative that they communicate. This is the purpose of Foresight Filmfestival.
„Foresight update“ encouraged researchers, scientists, filmmakers and media artists to submit their own interdisciplinary future visions. The theme of our second category is „City, Countryside, Interspace“ and linked to questions arising from challenges and potentials of future urban and rural life.
NOTES ON THE COMMON EXPEDITION „FORESIGHT FILMFESTIVAL N ° 3“
As already mentioned, our theme „science meets visions“ – designed as a beneficial interdisciplinary cooperation – is the heart of all Foresight Filmfestival editions. We are approaching this cooperation from two perspectives:
A: Scientists, engineers, and project developers can take the opportunity to advertise their work and let us know what they are enthusiastic about and how they are thinking into the future.
However, this is an interdisciplinary approach and exchange in collaboration with film and media makers or artists. It is essential to expand the project from the perspective of societal interest and knowledge combined with aesthetics, narrative forms, etc.
B: Right here, creative minds will be able to expand their own vision, how technological or societal development will influence our daily life in about ten to twenty years. Support and consultancy from scientists or researchers are more than welcome.
For both sectors: The future visions needed to be realized and presented in a short film format with a minimum of 30 seconds and a maximum of 5 minutes.
For further information: At A Glance Foresight Filmfestival no 4