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Screening programs will include works ranging from artist’s film and video-works to Bollywood blockbusters and Ghanaian superheroes, providing various lenses through which to examine the post-Western world – past, present, and future.

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How the West was One part 1 + 2 Friday, 26 October 2012 How the West was One part 1 + 2 Friday, 26 October 2012
How the West was One (part 1) ‘Meta-Cowboyism’ How the West was One (part 2) Westerns from the East You can visit both parts of [...]
Otolith Group [an Otolith double bill] Thursday, 25 October 2012 Otolith Group [an Otolith double bill] Thursday, 25 October 2012
With this double bill, prize winning artists’ collective Otolith Group aligns itself with the festival’s theme of imagined worlds by seamlessly integrating archive footage with [...]
Karaoke Americas + Different Moderns, Local Translations (ruangrupa) Thursday, 25 October 2012 Karaoke Americas + Different Moderns, Local Translations (ruangrupa) Thursday, 25 October 2012
Karaoke Americas (Talk) “American pop culture – Hollywood cinema, television, pop music – dominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence. Does that [...]
Sorry, This Video is No Longer Available on YouTube Thursday, 25 October 2012 Sorry, This Video is No Longer Available on YouTube Thursday, 25 October 2012
Film expert Kate Taylor explores how Japan’s most popular video site, Nico Nico Douga, started out as a simple website that linked videos from YouTube, [...]
Fourth Culture Kids Saturday, 27 October 2012 Fourth Culture Kids Saturday, 27 October 2012
The term “Third Culture Kid” has grown in popularity as a way to describe children who are raised between two cultures – the daughter of [...]
Global South Futurism: Local mythologies and Science Fiction + Futures Dreaming Saturday, 27 October 2012 Global South Futurism: Local mythologies and Science Fiction + Futures Dreaming Saturday, 27 October 2012
To paraphrase the novelist William Gibson, ‘The future is already here – it’s just not very well distributed’. This program explores the very real proof of this [...]
Sino-African Silk Road + Fake, Hack, Innovate Sunday, 28 October 2012 Sino-African Silk Road + Fake, Hack, Innovate Sunday, 28 October 2012
China’s increasing economic involvement in broader Africa is one of the biggest current stories in the ongoing narrative of China’s rise as a world power. [...]
How the West was One (part 2) Westerns from the East Friday, 26 October 2012 How the West was One (part 2) Westerns from the East Friday, 26 October 2012
The “Western” film genre may have originated in the USA, but has been an astoundingly flexible export, embraced and adapted by cultures around the world [...]
Imagining a Future-West / Just Another Country Saturday, 27 October 2012 Imagining a Future-West / Just Another Country Saturday, 27 October 2012
“The Collapse of the West” has always been a “problematic” concept, usually wielded by right-wing ideologues as an all-purpose scare tactic to oppose diversity, change, [...]
Mapping Creative Internet Activism in the Arab World Saturday, 27 October 2012 Mapping Creative Internet Activism in the Arab World Saturday, 27 October 2012
Since the beginning of the popular uprisings in the Arab world in late 2010, the Internet has seen an increasing amount of activist videos commenting [...]