Covermotiv: Iannis Xenaxis, study for Polytope de Cluny (light trajectory diagrams), c. 1972. With kind permission by les Amis de Xenakis. All rights reserved. For the cover, the original drawing was processed by Beton.
A mayor calls for colonists. A city planner erases his city on the computer. An unemployed person mobilizes those with nothing to do. A social scientist speaks of rural ghettos. A farmer organizes an energetically self-sufficient village. A pioneer sees a living brewery in a dead power station. A woman closes her cinema. “Neuland” (“New Land”) is a travel journal through the transforming eastern German landscape, in which many regions of the new German states see themselves confronted with the problems of de- or hyperindustrialization. The film deals with the question of whether spatial ordering can also be a social ordering in the future and whether the “shadow realm of globalization“ can also emerge as a “new land” for experiments and ways of living and working beyond or parallel to current society.
Daniel Kunle (*1972 in Berlin) studied experimental media design at the University of the Arts, Berlin. He works as a freelance filmmaker. His films have appeared in numerous international festivals since 2001. Kunle is a 2005/2006 fellow of the Akademie.
The film is a cooproduction by Daniel Kunle and Holger Lauinger. Duration: approx. 90 min.
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