Cold War Fantasies Film Screening: Machine Dreams

Cold War Fantasies film screening: Machine Dreams
Tue, 12/03/2013 - 18:00 - 20:00

Cold War Fantasies: Explore a strange world where the lack of information led to surreal experimentation, to collective madness and to new forms of intelligence. This unique screening series about the Cold War’s technological, political and science-fiction imagery has been created in connection with the seminar Though this be Madness, yet there is Method in It.

The films are introduced by Ioana Macrea-Toma and István Rév.
Programmers: Ioana-Macrea-Toma and Zsuzsanna Zádori.

Admission to the screenings is free. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Seats available from 5.30 pm.

6 pm, Tuesday December 3, 2013
Cold War Fantasies 05. Theme: Machine Dreams
On Guard!
Co-produced by IBM, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force, the film introduces SAGE, a computerized warning system designed to guard the U.S. against enemy aircraft.
US | 1956 | 12 min | English

Kin-Dza-Dza
Set in Moscow in the 80s, this cult cyberpunk film explores in a minimalist way the encounter of opposed civilizations and the afterlife of a machinistic age.
G. Daneliya | USSR | 1986 | 126 min | Russian w/ English subtitles

The films are introduced by Ioana Macrea-Toma.
Thank you for attending the program and join us for a glass of mulled wine at the end of this last screening!

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Previous screening sessions within the Film Lab Program:

September 24, 2013
Cold War Fantasies 01. Theme: Technophilia
The Most Incredible Challenge
Robert Braverman | US | 1965 | 28 min

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick | US | 1964 | 95 min
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October 8, 2013
Cold War Fantasies 02. Theme: Manchurian Philosophy
Retreat in Korea
US | 1951 | 10 min

The Manchurian Candidate
John Frankenheimer | US | 1962 | 126 min
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October 29, 2013
Cold War Fantasies 03. Theme: Interrogation of the Alien
L'Aveu / The Confession
Costa Gavras l France l 1970 l 139 min l French with English subtitles
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November 26, 2013
Cold War Fantasies 04. Theme: Fictive Spies
Noel Field: The Fictitious Spy
Werner Schweizer | Switzerland & Germany | 1996 | 106 min

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