Social Visions

  • October 2, 2013 / 19:00
  • October 12, 2013 / 16:00

Director: Redmond Entwistle
UK; black & white, 15’, 2000
English with Turkish subtitles

This film suggests the myriad histories and futures that constitute Los Angeles; a city whose public image has been used as cover for the abuse of its population but also a city where one senses the potential for radical social change. Without money or political power, the majority of people who live here are invisible. Social Visions is about the impossibility of adequately representing a city when whole sections of the population are excluded from the channels of power.

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