Lessons in Modesty

Lessons in Modesty

Production country: 
be
Year: 
1994
Duration: 
90'
Edition: 
1995
Format: 
film/video

An extensive video-essay on the body and technology in the 90s.
"We TV makers are casual onlookers. Unlike artists who can deploy their own bodies to give insights into the technological fate of the human frame. Today, anyone with a home computer and a modem is in position to play a part in the technological performance of the future. Why are we all dreaming the same? In this video, after a moment of sharp therapeutic conditioning and some last minute instructions by specialist future builders at the NASA and Xerox Park, we wonder how San Francisco looks like, after the future passed by. Driven as it were by a dream we land in Las Vegas to witness the final showdown between Good and Evil. This program is bringing you the future: a young girl asks: "Papa, when will I be reborn? I am not anymore the person I was. Now I am a totally new and different person. Once I was lost, but now I am found..." Does the new millenium looks like this?

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