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7:30 PM
World on a Wire
Film|Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema
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Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong
- Price $ 80/64* *Tickets for full-time students, senior citizens, aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.| Group Booking Discount: 20% off for purchase of 4 or more above standard tickets. | 20% discount to Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof
- Part of series: Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema
World on a Wire
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
West Germany | 1973 | 212 mins | In German with English subtitles | DCP | Colour
Honourable Mention (Television Play), Adolf Grimme Awards, Germany 1974
Berlin International Film Festival 2010
Melbourne International Film Festival 2010
A trippy race between humans and the machines
In the future, the government has a simulation project called Simulacron, which includes an artificial world with over 9,000 identity units who live as avatars that believe themselves to be real people. The technical director of the programme dies in a mystery accident. His successor, Fred Stiller, becomes suspicious of a massive corporate and governmental conspiracy, and starts to wonder about his own humanity and the “real world”. Meanwhile, one of the identity units in the simulation attempts suicide.
In World on a Wire, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wild wired dystopia is gloriously cracked and boundlessly inventive. The epic demonstrates that sci-fi is a genre that is fit for Fassbinder-esque paranoid-existential interrogation and romantic vision. This is the director’s only work of sci-fi which he made at the age of 27, and was originally aired as a two-part television serial in 1968.
Click here to see the full programme of Machine Like Us
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
West Germany | 1973 | 212 mins | In German with English subtitles | DCP | Colour
Honourable Mention (Television Play), Adolf Grimme Awards, Germany 1974
Berlin International Film Festival 2010
Melbourne International Film Festival 2010
A trippy race between humans and the machines
In the future, the government has a simulation project called Simulacron, which includes an artificial world with over 9,000 identity units who live as avatars that believe themselves to be real people. The technical director of the programme dies in a mystery accident. His successor, Fred Stiller, becomes suspicious of a massive corporate and governmental conspiracy, and starts to wonder about his own humanity and the “real world”. Meanwhile, one of the identity units in the simulation attempts suicide.
In World on a Wire, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wild wired dystopia is gloriously cracked and boundlessly inventive. The epic demonstrates that sci-fi is a genre that is fit for Fassbinder-esque paranoid-existential interrogation and romantic vision. This is the director’s only work of sci-fi which he made at the age of 27, and was originally aired as a two-part television serial in 1968.
Click here to see the full programme of Machine Like Us
Location
Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
UB, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Hongkong
Transnational
UB, 2 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Hongkong
Transnational
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