Boomtown Babylon

Presentation
As the global urban population expands at a rate of 3 million people per week, we have reached a critical moment in human history when, for the first time, more than half the world!s people live in cities.

Boomtown Babylon is a 30-minute interactive web documentary that offers a participatory journey through the most acute extremes of the global urbanization phenomenon, inviting the viewer to embark on a compelling ride from the slums and pavements of the poorest neighbourhoods, to the private mansions of the very wealthy, in five of the world’s most divided cities. The segments will be produced by a collective of local film-makers in each city, who will collaborate via an online playtform during the 6-month production phase.

About the creative team
Lotje Sodderland, associate producer
Director and documentary producer, Lotje has previously worked on environmental documentaries in association with BBC World and Channel 4, and alongside UK-based director Robert Lamb.

She currently works as web editor for Dutch online broadcaster SubmarineChannel and regularly produces contemporary art exhibitions in Amsterdam, Barcelona and New York for Maxalot Gallery, which she co-founded in 2003.

Matthieu Saura (Vincent Moon), creative director
Co-creator of the Take Away shows (aka Les concerts à emporter), Vincent Moon is well-known for exploring new documentary formats. He directed a movie-essay on New York band The National, ‘A skin, A night’, released in May 2008, toured with The Arcade Fire and worked closely with Michael Stipe and REM on several video and web projects related to their 2008 album : the 48minutes essay ‘SIX DAYS’, experimental documentary on the recording of ‘Accelerate’, the experimental ninety-days-long web project ‘90nights’, and the web music video ‘Supernatural Superserious’.

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