Waithood
Youth
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21m
by Louisiana Mees • 2019 • Belgium
Athens, 2018. 44% of youth are unemployed. A generation lost in a no man's land, wandering outside the classroom and labour market amid a booming sharing economy and gentrification. Five youngsters avoid waiting for an empty future by seeking entertainment in the luxurious Airbnb establishments that one of them is cleaning for a meagre fee. On the rooftops, they look out over a city in turmoil, daydreaming about a world of possibilities.
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Because We Are Visual
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In Because We Are Visual, Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes explore the world of public video journals. The Internet and its online communities intended to bring people closer together and to connect them. Yet it seems that this virtual w...