Bregtje van der Haak: Lagos Wide & Close

On the occasion of the launching of the DVD Lagos Wide & Close by Bregtje van der Haak, there will be a special video installation in Witte de With during the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR). The installation, in which the different video and audio tracks of the DVD can be 'simultaneously' seen and heard, is part of the City Program of the IABR, and will be on view until 19 June.

In 2002, Bregtje van der Haak, in cooperation with architect Rem Koolhaas and The Harvard Project on the City made Lagos/Koolhaas, a documentary on self-organization and urbanization in Nigeria. As a sequel, together with designer Silke Wawro, she developed a new project: Lagos Wide & Close, an Interactive Journey into an Exploding City. This innovative DVD contains an interactive video documentary (60’), edited from 55 hours of unused material that brings the viewer closer to the explosively growing megalopolis Lagos. With bus driver Olawole Busayo, the viewer moves through the city and has a choice of a distant (‘wide’) or an involved (‘close’) perspective, at any random moment in the documentary.

Director: Bregtje van der Haak Designer: Silke Wawro Camera: Alexander Oey Sound: Rik Meier Submarine, 2005

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Bregtje van der Haak: Lagos Wide & Close
presentation and talk

01.06.05, 20:00 Rem Koolhaas in conversation with Bregtje van der Haak