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Shop Talk GARAGE D ‘SMATI Turtle 1’
Garage D. SMATI Turtle 1 System D. A small minority of the world’s population lives in a planned, well organized and regulated society – think […]
Festival Opening: Capitalist Futures
The festival curators present a number of brief presentations on the highlights of the Capitalism Catch-22 programme. Artists and other guests will provide short previews. […]
Capitalism Catch-22: 30 October – 3 November
On the theme
Impakt x HKU Exhibition: Value This
What can the subject Capitalism Catch-22 elicit from young artists? For the second year running, the HKU university of the Arts Utrecht and Impakt will […]
To The Reader : Opening 18 October
To The Reader emerges from the understanding that capitalism is, first and foremost, a social relation that defines our behaviour. The exhibition is grounded in […]
Xavier Fourt, Impakt Event: Psychology of the Crash
Bureau d’Études The Paris-based artists Léonore Bonaccini and Xavier Fourt form the duo Bureau d’Études. For the last several years, the French group has been […]
Fred van Raaij, Impakt Event: Psychology of the Crash
Fred van Raaij (Universiteit van Tilburg) Professor Fred van Raaij researches the underlying psychology of economic processes. In his talk he visualizes the effects of […]
Marije Meerman, Impakt Event: Psychology of the Crash
Marije Meerman (VPRO Tegenlicht) Documentary film maker Marije Meerman developed ‘Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box’, one of the first iPad documentaries. This thriller, […]
Impakt Festival 2013: Many thanks to our sponsors
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Festival Exhibition: To The Reader
Festival Exhibition curated by Benjamin Fallon.
BAK, Utrecht.
On Group Formation: Impakt Online Exhibition 2013
On Group Formation: Impakt Net Art 2013. About the concept, projects and the artists.
Net Art: About
Impakt Net Art is Impakt’s platform for online art, previously known as Impakt Online. Impakt Net Art stimulates the development of new art projects on […]
Impakt Abroad: New Orleans Film Festival 2013
A wholesome 90 minutes Eurotrip, in an Impakt Abroad Screening at the New Orleans Film Festival.
Impakt Online: On Group Formation and POW!
Impakt Net Art Yearly, Impakt Online commissions three online artworks that are launched on the website in an online exhibition. During the Impakt festival, the […]
Work Songs
Special Projects curated by Monnik
The Residence
The Residence (A wager for the afterlife)
Vermeir & Heiremans, Belgium 2012, 37:00 min
Tatort Fraport
Tatort Fraport (Crime Scene: Fraport)
David Ruf, DE 2009, 25:00 min
The Shoemaker and the Hatter
The Shoemaker and the Hatter
John Halas & Joy Batchelor, GB 1950, 16:00 min
The Anarchist Banker
The Anarchist Banker
Jan Peter Hammer, DE 2010, 30:00 min
Nicht ohne Risiko
Nicht ohne Risiko (Nothing Ventured)
Harun Farocki, DE 2004, 52:00 min
The Shutdown
The Shutdown Adam Stafford, GB 2009, 10:00 min Based on a collaboration with Scottish scriptwriter Alan Bissett, The Shutdown recalls the experience of growing up […]
Utlänningar, Del 1: Båtar och Kanoner
Utlänningar, Del 1: Båtar och Kanoner (Foreigners, Part 1: Ships and Guns) Peter Nestler, Sweden 1977, 44:00 Documentary filmmaker Peter Nestler is known for his […]
I am 20
I am 20 S.N.S. Sastry, India 1967, 14:00 min 20 years after India’s independence, Sastry travelled all over the country and interviewed its youth, those […]
Men and Machines
Men and Machines Diana Pine, GB 1951, 17:00 min This survey of Europe’s Marshall Plan-aided economic recovery conveys harmony between men and machines. To lower […]
Fictions and Futures #1 – Happiness in the Abstract
Fictions and Futures #1 – Happiness in the Abstract
Arne Hector & Minze Tummescheit, DE 2013, 35:00 min
The Crises of Capitalism
David Harvey: The Crises of Capitalism
RSA Animate, GB 2011, 11:00 min
Nieuwe Gronden
Nieuwe Gronden (New Earth)
Joris Ivens, NL 1934, 28:00 min
Hands
Hands
Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke, US 1934, 4:00 min
unsupported transit
unsupported transit Zachary Formwalt, NL 2011, 14:00 min Set on the construction site of the new stock exchange in Shenzhen, China, the video tells a […]
Paradise Later
Paradise Later Ascan Breuer, AT/DE/ID 2010, 13:00 min The camera follows a polluted river while we hear the annual report of a disillusioned Western businessman. […]
Una Ciudad En Una Ciudad
Una Ciudad En Una Ciudad (A City Within A City) cylixe, DE 2012, 18:00 min When the construction of a high-rise financial centre in Caracas, […]
Ilha das Flores
Ilha das Flores (Isle of Flowers) Jorge Furtado, Brazil 1989, 13:00 min Furtado’s acclaimed short film explores the economic relationship between humans, animals and food. […]
Arrival
Arrival Mani Kaul, India 1980, 19:00 min Men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep come to the city—all ready for consumption. In a collage […]
Kopfende Haßloch
Kopfende Haßloch (Mapping the German) Jürgen Brügger & Jörg Haaßengier, DE 2006, 37:00 min Imagine a cartographic map produced on a 1:1 scale, exactly the […]
Lobbyists
Lobbyists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, NL 2009, 19:00 min In this video Castro and Ólafsson portray the activity of lobbyists in Brussels and Strasbourg. […]
Free To Choose, Vol. 1 – The Power of the Market: The Pencil
Free To Choose, Vol. 1 – The Power of the Market: The Pencil Milton Friedman, US 1980, 2:20 min In his PBS television series Free […]
Marketing
Marketing Pierre Long, FR/GB 1953, 17:00 min Marketing takes France as an example to show the necessity of product standardization and market research. In order […]
Last Men Standing
Last Men Standing Sasha Maja Djurkovic, GB 2005, 17:00 min In 1994 the Tower Colliery Coal Mine in Wales was bought by the miners themselves, […]
Inflation
Inflation Hans Richter, DE 1928, 3:00 min Richter’s films of the 1920s, although abstract and surrealist in style, express a strong sense of reality. Inflation […]
A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner
A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner Kineto Production Company, GB 1910, 9:00 min Sponsored by L.N.W. Railway, this early film provides a […]
Die Börsenkönigin
Die Börsenkönigin (The Queen of the Stock Exchange) Edmund Edel, DE 1916, 52:00 min Live piano score by Wim van Tuyl Silent film star Asta […]
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Sophie Fiennes (GB/IE 2012) English spoken| 136 min Six years after the acclaimed The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema , Sophie […]
Curators Walk Monnik
During the curators walk Monnik will discuss their curatorial choices during a tour where they will visit the artists and participants on location. They will […]
Uncertainty Seminars – Andrew Norman Wilson
Uncertainty Seminars – Andrew Norman Wilson (USA 2013 | 11:55 min) A series of therapeutic self-help techniques suggested in an abstract manner. Historic references to […]
Lecture: Free Libraries for Every Soul
Lecture: Free Libraries for Every Soul
Closing Night: YouTube Battle 2013
Calling all youTube freaks! The closing night of the festival will once again give stage to this notorious live show. The best youTube connoisseurs, the […]
Call For Hosts
For the Impakt Festival 2013 artists, film makers, curators and festival organizers from all around the world will travel to Utrecht. In order to make their stay a pleasant […]
Academy of Work : The Nootropics Bar
Partizan Publik and Arne Hendriks – ‘Academy of Work: the Nootropics Bar’ At the Nootropics Bar, Arne Hendriks and Joost Janmaat will present a kaleidoscope […]
Free Libraries for Every Soul
Marcell Mars – ‘Free Libraries for Every Soul’ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION! Long before the slogan ‘Information wants to be Free’ was coined, the founder of […]
Saccades
Reimer van Tuinen and Gawie Keyser – ‘Saccades’ Supermarket shelves, a glimpse of cleavage, open heart surgery and smiling faces. Researchers have known for quite […]
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology – Sophie Fiennes and Slavoj Žižek
Dutch tour Impakt Festival 2013