Moving Along
How did the car change the way we live together? And what happens when movement itself becomes the organising principle of the city?
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This fall, the Beursschouwburg film programme looks at the ways cars, trains, metros and other forms of transportation have transformed our daily lives and reshaped the environments around us. From the arrival of the automobile as a mass consumer product to the construction of motorways, parking lots and vast infrastructures designed to keep us moving, transportation has profoundly altered the scale, rhythm and appearance of our cities.
The films in the programme observe these changes from different perspectives. They look at traffic and congestion, but also at labour, leisure, architecture, and the simple act of walking. They ask who our cities are designed for, who gets to move freely, and what happens to the people and places that get in the way.
The programme also understands mobility in its broader social sense: as social mobility, moving between neighbourhoods, milieus and social classes, while encountering, negotiating and acknowledging the social and symbolic boundaries that surround us.
Sometimes critical, sometimes playful or absurd, these films invite us to look again at the seemingly ordinary systems that organise how we move through the world.
