The Supremacy of the Idea
DV-Video, 9:37 min, 2008The surface of the earth has become uninhabitable and mankind has created a new über-machine which allows them to live underground in a new artificial world of mediated communication via screens and speech tubes. To have ideas is the ultimate goal. Then something goes wrong.Written in 1909, E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops is a dystopian story that is frighteningly relevant 100 years later.
DV-Video, 9:37 min, 2008The surface of the earth has become uninhabitable and mankind has created a new über-machine which allows them to live underground in a new artificial world of mediated communication via screens and speech tubes. To have ideas is the ultimate goal. Then something goes wrong.Written in 1909, E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops is a dystopian story that is frighteningly relevant 100 years later.