In Tall Buildings

At 1646, audiences could walk through carefully crafted film sets. Spaces that make us feel the tension between these opaque financial worlds and our private space, where we find ourselves on the edge of dreams and reality.

The exhibition In Tall Buildings is part of the long-term feature film project 5000 Miles that Demper has been working on for the past few years. It is a film that is un-traditionally made in small parts, with each exhibition building on the larger narrative. The main character, Donny works at a large asset manager company. Inspired on a real life example, this company uses an electronic system that manages almost a tenth of the world’s wealth. By using complex algorithms, data based on past events and often very personal information from millions of people, it predicts market risks and moves money from its clients accordingly, keeping the financial market stable. “In such a world, real change is currently impossible because an algorithm predicts and corrects any change or instability,” says Demper. This means that if we ever want real social and political change, this system will need radical change.

Bob Demper would like to thank the following people for helping and collaborating with him over the past few months:

Cast: Rick van Uum and Bob Demper
Cinematography: in collaboration with Pedro Gossler
Set building: Anna Spiliotopoulou, Maria Chiara Ziosi, Alexander Webber and Foivos Thanos
Robotics: Tim Demper

Thanks to: Maja Klaassens, Thessa Meijer,  Koen Slaats, Henk and Patty Demper