Deep Space 8k – Animation Festival with Data, Bodies Space

Image of It's Dangerous to Go AloneThe selected shorts from Data, Bodies, Space fast-forward to a future which is fascinating and frightening at the same time. In The Needlecast Rhapsody, we witness a technology which can upload humans to distant locations in the galaxy. Moirai – Thread of Life also shows a journey to different cosmic dimensions and touches on quantum physics to explain notions of fate. Posthuman Hospital and My Mind As/Is Your Memory, My Body As/Is Your Substance take one to a nightmarish posthuman dystopia, whereas Rehousing Technosphere gives a more hopeful look into a new planetary ecology in a more-than-human future in which the digital is everpresent yet endued with haptic and sensual properties. La Limite est une facade, and IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS! depict mesmerizing journeys of fluidity and metamorphosis with a poetic approach, whereas CIRCVS MAXIMVS and Interchange feature a humorous take on virtual, computer-animated worlds and their relationship with the “real” world, highlighting the entanglements of power and control.