On Tuesday, 9 July, the arthouse cinema "Lichtblick", a student initiative of Paderborn University, will be showing the film "Koyaanisqatsi - The Prophecy" from 1968 at 8.30 pm in Paderborn's Pollux cinema (Westernstraße 34).
Free student tickets
At least thirty free student tickets are available through the AStA Kulturticket. These can be redeemed at the cinema box office at the earliest one week before the screening by presenting your student ID together with an official photo ID.
Further information on the film "Koyaanisqatsi - The Prophecy"
America - civilisation - technology. Without dialogue and without actors, director Godfrey Reggio sends the audience on a journey. They follow the paths of people on which they exploit natural resources for enrichment, incinerate what has been built and are dispatched in a system of railways and stations. A path from the vast beauty of nature to the busy, effective wasteland of steel, glass and concrete. The parallels between cities and organisms are captured in interlinked slow-motion and time-lapse image sequences. The slow superficial and fast hidden processes behind consumption and entertainment are taken to extremes, the costs of the cycles of modern life are revealed and humanity's ambitions in technological progress are scrutinised.
Programme for the 2024 summer semester: "CineCity"
The student-run arthouse cinema "Lichtblick" has been organising a film series in the Pollux cinema every semester since 2003, showing selected classics, cult films and curiosities. The new programme for the 2024 summer semester, "CineCity", focuses on the city in film. Whether realistically documented or fantastically staged, the big city exerts a special fascination for film. The urbanisation of the 20th century led to the emergence of a mass culture in which cinema also played its part. But the big city and film are also intrinsically linked. Industry, fast means of transport and a high population density characterise the city as a place of acceleration.
Further information and the complete programme can be found on the website of the "Lichtblick" arthouse cinema.
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