Postmodern Times (Re-run)

On the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, many festivals and film organisations celebrate International Short Film Day. In honor of this, De Cinema revisits this wordless but rhythmic short film programme focusing on machinery and architecture.

City symphonies and disaster films are beautifully combined in Misty Picture, and the brilliantly edited jazzy glassblowers’ ballet in Glass showcases how industry cannot exist without humans. Meanwhile, plants, animals, and machinery merge into a unique organism in the automated greenhouses of Agrilogistics, and Hilary Harris’ unique time-lapse imagery in Organism reflects the functioning of a city with the biology of our body.