Patterns, regulations and algorithms are determining our lives. We see attempts to establish order, to categorize, systemize, control, and automate. From fashion to production processes, rules of play, rhythms and music, just to name a few. But what happens if not everyone follows the rules? If the system is manipulated, if small errors occur and chance takes over? We then suddenly realize that chaos can create new perspectives and insights. (Sarah Adam)
How much individuality is allowed in the classroom? How crazy can the hairstyles be and how colorful the nails? Akira Kawasaki shows us what is possible in most middle and high schools in Japan and how to play the system.
… >>>More than 100 pupils venture into a large-scale scientific experiment. Since most people do not know exactly how a computer works, they recreate the data processing processes of a computer chip live in their school hall. The process is observed with scepticism from the control room, because each processor particle has a very specific task.
… >>>A system planned from the beginning to the end. It is improved, up-scaled, marketed and ready for the future. We see technologies of production and reproduction and get to know the history of raising pigs in buildings.
… >>>Loud and fast, that is how it should be. Young people compose electronic music, dance and film themselves. Their social media feeds are widely shared and popular, and symbolize the rebellion of a young generation. However, there is the question, against which system do they protest?
… >>>A golfer fails to strike, a soccer team plays against itself, and a rally co-driver faces an identity crisis. Everyone acts against their programmed codes. How did this error occur? Or is it just a random glitch? A machinima film shot in sports video games that questions the prevailing system – since nothing less than the world is at stake.
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