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Highway World - Living, Changing, Growing

Highway World - Living, Changing, Growing

(Highway World - Living, Changing, Growing), Martin Hans Schmitt / NĚM, 2007
origin languages / Czech subtitles, 81 min

The visual contemplation of human mobility shows different forms of the relation between the man and the road, or rather the modern civilization and its communications. The director uses both promotional and scientific footage and computer animation to show, in the shape of a contrastive series of pictures of giant construction sites in Africa, high-tech car factories, multi-storey American highways or archive documents and feature films, a compact picture of a dream made of concrete as it has changed from a symbol of New-Age to a bad omen.

The partner of the screening is the International documentary film festival Jihlava.