Where: Cinema
Description
We are excited to host the 2019 WEP Film Festival, where renowned scientists will introduce and lead discussions for a range of educational documentaries and fictional film screenings related to this year’s theme ‘TIME’.
In Adam Magyar’s hypnotic video Stainless, time appears to have stopped for everyone but the viewer, who travels down the subway platform of Alexanderplatz station in Berlin. The nearly immobile commuters are frozen in mid-conversation, sipping coffee, staring at cell-phone screens, or lost in thought. Only a little girl running down the platform seems to be in the real world.
Magyar, a Berlin-based Hungarian photographer (born 1972), created Stainless using a customized high-speed-camera setup he devised. He recorded the length of the subway platform from the window of a train, stretching the 12-second passage into 12 minutes and slowing the movements of waiting passengers to near stillness.
Magyar’s interest in focusing on “unimportant, ignored moments,” rather than exceptional situations, allows the viewer a voyeuristic look at people’s everyday presentation, pose, and expression, and transforms a commonplace crowd into a gallery of living sculptures.
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Adam Magyar
Adam Magyar (born 1972) is a Berlin-based Hungarian photographer and video artist captivated by high-tech cities. His work depicts life in the urban environment and his process is a symbiosis between technology and creative instinct. He is fascinated by the flow of time in the endless stream of lives in the world’s biggest mega-cities, and his work depicts his dream of capturing the different parts of a person or of a group of people at different times, in one single image.
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