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About
Because filming has long been restricted in Nigeria, few images of Lagos exist. Based on research by The Harvard Project on the City under the direction of Rem Koolhaas, this DVD represents a unique engagement with a hardly documented city, capturing multiple perspectives of a volatile moment in its evolution.
In 2002, Bregtje van der Haak, in cooperation with architect Rem Koolhaas and The Harvard Project on the City made Lagos/Koolhaas, a documentary on self-organization and urbanization in Nigeria. As a sequel to the documentary, Bregtje van der Haak together with designer Silke Wawro, developed the DVD: Lagos Wide & Close, an Interactive Journey into an Exploding City. The DVD contains an interactive video documentary (60'), edited from 55 hours of unused material that brings the viewer closer to the explosively growing megalopolis Lagos. With bus driver Olawole Busayo, the viewer moves through the city and has a choice of a distant ('wide') or an involved ('close') perspective, at any random moment in the documentary.
Biography Bregtje van der Haak, director
Bregtje van der Haak is a political scientist, journalist and documentary maker. Since 1994, she has been making programs for the public broadcasting network. For VPRO, she makes documentaries for Tegenlicht (Backlight), DNW-Rooksignalen uit De Nieuwe Wereld (Smoke Signals from the New World) and Laat op de avond na een korte wandeling (Late in the evening after a short walk), among others. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam in political science and law and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her television career began on "The Charlie Rose Show" in New York. Since 1990, she has written about art, media and culture.
Biography Silke Wawro, designer
Silke Wawro graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam as a graphic designer. Her work 'Volksware' investigates the creating of value for a product and the impact of that on the consumer. Her most recent work. 'The Most Expensive Coat in the World', is made from more than 7,500 labels from clothing brands. Since 2002, she teaches at the Art Academy HGB in Leipzig, Germany, among others.
Credits:
Director: Bregtje van der Haak
Designer: Silke Wawro
Camera: Alexander Oey
Sound: Rik Meier
Specs:
Video: PAL or NTSC
Region code: ALL
Disc format: DVD-9
Picture format: 16:9
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Audio: 1) Dolby Digital 5.1; 2) Dolby stereo
Video duration: 2 x 60 mins. approx.
Audio duration: 3 x 60 mins. approx.
(please indicate in the remarks field of the order form if you wish to order NTSC format)
The concept of this DVD was developed during a masterclass organized by the Sandberg Institute and the Dutch Cultural Broadcast Fund.
This production came about with the support of the Amsterdam Foundation for Visual Arts and the Dutch Cultural Broadcast Fund and is produced by Submarine in co-production with VPRO.
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