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Tramway Film Festival

CENTER, RING, MALL

Netherlands | 2023 | 17’ | Polish premiere

A multi-vocal triptych through peripheral sites of urban infrastructure: a data center, a ring road, and a run-down mall. All three sites were built with certain worldviews: visions of the future and US-influenced promises of progress that didn’t turn out to be the utopias they pre-sented themselves as. Through a site-specific soundtrack, 16mm and 3D images, the spaces and their implications are subjectively mapped, poeticized and questioned. A poetic materialism of decay, renewal, remembering and projecting, Center, Ring, Mall is perhaps a mourning, but one that desires and demands a rebirth.

Director: Mateo Vega
Script: Maxime Garcia Diaz, Lila Bullen-Smith, Mateo Vega
Cinematography: Sam Broekman
Cast: JARREL, DARKO, DOLORES, AMELIE, ROBIN
Producer: Mateo Vega, Ciska Meister, Nano Rodriguez

Main festivals:

  • International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • New York Film Festival
  • Videoex
  • Guanajuato International Film Festival
  • Festival du Nouveau Cinéma