What if your neighbourhood was its own tiny planet? And in orbit with your miniscule globe, an entire solar system of tiny planets, each a single neighbourhood? This is the universe imagined by Jonas Ginter, the creator of a video technique that transforms everyday places into their own tiny spheres, much like the asteroid B612 imagined in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s story The Little Prince (1943). Clever and fun, Ginter’s film inventively uses GoPro cameras to construct these miniature worlds and take us on a leisurely ride through a pleasantly surreal urban landscape.
Director: Jonas Ginter
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Nature and landscape
After independence, Mexico was in search of identity. These paintings offered a blueprint
15 minutes
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Art
A young Rockefeller collects art on a fateful journey to New Guinea
7 minutes
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Art
Defying classification, fantastical artworks reframe the racism of Carl Linnaeus
8 minutes
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Film and visual culture
Space and time expand, contract and combust in this propulsive animation
5 minutes
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Childhood and adolescence
‘Do worms cry?’ – and other questions collected from the mind of a curious child
4 minutes
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Social psychology
What happened when a crypto scam swept over a sleepy town in the Caucasus
18 minutes
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Art
When East met West in the images of an overlooked, original photographer
9 minutes
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Earth science and climate
Images carved into film form a haunting elegy for a disappearing slice of Earth
3 minutes
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War and peace
Two Ukrainian boys’ summer unfolds just miles from the frontlines
22 minutes