Diorama (2018)

Directed by

Matthias De Groof

Genre

short film

Country

Belgium

Runtime

34 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This short film follows workers at a Belgian museum as they dismantle old dioramas about Africa. The film uses this action to draw a connection between environmental destruction and colonialism.

contemplativeslow-pacedintellectualsomberreflectivevisually starkmetaphoricalclinical

What happens

Diorama is een kortfilm uit 2018 geregisseerd door Matthias De Groof. De film behandelt de renovaties in het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika in Tervuren, waar het personeel begon met het afbreken van de oude diorama's die tentoongesteld waren. Volgens de regisseur wordt deze handeling gepresenteerd als een allegorie voor de link tussen ecocide en kolonisatie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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