https://vimeo.com/68546428

the story this video tells is about an ever expanding anonymous city which slowly destroys itself with each addition, creating dusty clouds which block the sun for most of the day. somewhere out there must be another world to build new ever expanding anonymous cities again. so tell us where to find it and maybe too about the one or two lessons which were learned there.

this video is a collective work of artistgroup afzb. it was originally intended as a showcase for a photoproject of dutch artist simon dirkse. this project was about architectural details of buildings in relation to their surroundings in rotterdam. some of these photos were arranged to a video which was later expanded with similar photos from antwerp and hamburg and additional images other members of the group made of interiors and machinery that emphasize the impression of a big city. to this last version polish artist and musician xymena skowron added some backgrounds. the somewhat apocalyptic result gave the idea to add images of spacecrafts taking off to it as to say: we messed up things here and now we're going to do the same somewhere else, or at someone else's place, depending on the fact if we're alone in this universe. but that's another story!