fanmo jimte
I know some of us were impressed by fanmo jimte, the Lojban video posted on
YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_nKJW_KuK4
But we couldn't find who the author was or the motivations for why it was
made.
emuzesto posted a link on the IRC revealing all:
11:04:17 <emuzesto> Hmm. I just discovered this on the page of the art
> gallery
>
> which is located next to the washery where I lived before in
> Stockholm
>
> (actually in the washery). Evidently, the fanmo jimte movies are
> made
>
> by a swedish artist and displayed there. I probably need to take
> the
>
> metro there to see it.
> 11:04:24 <emuzesto> http://www.konsthallc.se/SV/obj632433/default.aspx
> 11:04:36 <emuzesto> But this you probably knew already.
>
Quote from the page:
Lina Persson: Fanmo jimte (2008)
>
> The town of Vulcan in Alberta, Canada was established as a farming
> community during the expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the
> beginning of the 20th century. The town’s symbol was nine silos which rose
> majestically over the flat landscape. In the 1960s
>
> conditions for agriculture deteriorated, farming became unprofitable for
> economic and climate reasons. The nine silos – “9 in line†– had become a
> collective symbol of hard work and industry, but burned down in 1971. During
> this time of recession for Vulcan, another Vulcan arose in the world of
> fiction: the planet Vulcan in Star Trek. The series, which began in 1966, is
> one of the greatest and most long-lived successes in television history and
> has generated a world-wide devoted fan culture. Early on, Star Trek fans
> began to make pilgrimages to Vulcan in Canada to express their devotion.
> Later on, the town embraced this linguistic mix and tried to exploit it to
> attract tourists. In 2003 a sculpture was made representing the Star Trek
> ship Enterprise which became the symbolic as well as real replacement of “9
> in line†and marked a new era.
>
> In the film the story of Vulcan is told in Lojban, a language that has been
> created by linguists and technologists and absorbed by the Star Trek
> culture. Lojban and the example of Vulcan show how Star Trek fiction
> functions as a media text that shapes reality at the same time as it is
> taken over and extended by a group of consumers inventing their own social
> culture.
>
> Lina Persson talks about her film on Vulcan as a semiotic monument. The
> monument is recreated in the film through combining different levels of
> reality, though a fusion of material from documents, archives and scenarios.
> Uploaded on Youtube, the film generates constant comments on Lojban and has
> become a part of fan culture. In the centre of the story is the farmer Nora,
> who has been hit by crop failure and shadowed by apocalyptic reports. Nora
> experiences a transformation into an alien.
>
Glad to have that cleared up.