A dream, a city, a boy. The starting point for the film ‘Every Epoch Dreams the Next’ is an excerpt from the film Qyteti me i ri ne bote (Xhanfise Keko 1974, EN: ‘The Youngest City in the World’) from the communist era in Albania. In a dream-like scene in this feature film, a boy dreams of a modern city in which progress and change are represented by buildings and constructions. ‘Every Epoch Dreams the Next’ revolves around the historical and current transformation processes of the urban space of the Albanian city of Tirana and reflects on the power of images, historical and contemporary utopias and the interplay with architecture.
Johannes Gierlinger
In his artistic work, he deals with forms of remembrance and collective memory as well as perspectives of resistance. Central to his work are processes of transformation, constellations between the past and the present, and questions of representation and its effects. He showed his work at film festivals & institution, among others Visions Du Réel Nyon (CH), EMAF (DE), CPH:DOX (DK), ZINEBI Bilbao (ESP), Belvedere21 (AT), Werkleitz Zentrum für Medienkunst (DE), Filmmakers Milano (IT), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT), Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago (CL), Kassel Dokfest (DE), Diagonale Graz (AT). Lives and works in Vienna.
