To what extent can we control the lived environment, and how does this impact our lives? A consideration of growth and development that suggests all landscapes are human.
13min 30sec, 16mm
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“Traveling to Bangalore, India from Valencia, California, Brunner-Sung’s brief essay meditates on a quote from Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism — ‘The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.’” –Images Festival
CREDITS
Written, directed, produced, shot, and edited by VERA BRUNNER-SUNG
SCREENINGS
2015
Experimental Response Cinema, Austin, TX
2011
ARTLAB+ Film Forum, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
2010
“Southern California Landscapes via Experimental Film,” 7 Dudley Cinema, Venice, CA
2009
Last Friday Shorts at TAP, Southend-on-Sea, England
2009
“Cast Glances, New Films,” Spool Mfg, Johnson City, NY / “The Underground City,” DIVUS, London, England / $100 Film Festival, Calgary
2008
“My Footnote to David Askevold,” Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / Images Festival, Toronto / Los Angeles Filmforum / Urban Research at Director’s Lounge, Berlin