Michael Madsen

“This film documents an event that has never taken place…” With unprecedented access to the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs, leading space scientists and space agencies, The Visit explores humans’ first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itself. “Our scenario begins with the arrival. Your arrival.”

“Se os edifícios pudessem falar, o que diriam sobre nós?” Cathedrals of Culture oferece seis respostas para esta questão. O projeto, filmado inteiramente em 3D, permite que seis edifícios emblemáticos e muito diferentes falem por si, examinando a vida humana a partir da perspetiva de uma estrutura feita pelo homem. Os edifícios são manifestações materiais do pensamento e da ação humana: a Filarmónica de Berlim, um ícone da modernidade; a Biblioteca Nacional da Rússia, um reino de pensamentos; Halden Prison, a prisão mais humana do mundo; o Instituto Salk, um mosteiro científico na costa da Califórnia; a Oslo Opera House, uma simbiose futurista da arte e da vida; e o Centro Pompidou, uma máquina de cultura moderna. O filme explora a forma como cada um desses ícones reflete a nossa cultura e acolhe a nossa memória coletiva.

Part of a 3-D project on the soul of architecture initiated by Wim Wenders, Madsen’s film considers the impact of Norway’s Halden Prison, called “the world’s most humane prison.”

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storage, which is vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.

Location: The Central Copenhagen Statistics Office "From the information in your database, can you then for certain say that Copenhagen exists for real? Can you from the information in your database say for sure that the data could not be from another city? Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen!"

Celestial Night is a film on visibility and questions what it means to see. It is a film about what is invisible apart from the imagination: Celestial Night is a film dealing with this vital power, the ability to envision. It is a search in present day Japan for the mythical Japanese Emperor Amayonomikoto who was blind, and the story of a time when seeing was not believing.