
UvA: Lovely, Lovely Planet(s)
ResearchLabs 2025: UvA: Lovely, Lovely Planet(s)
A kaleidoscopic selection of advertisements, home movies, experimental films, propaganda reels and much more, come together in this session curated by the AMIA Student Chapter at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). A real trip through space and time.

In Lovely, Lovely Planet(s), travel films return to cinema following its original vocation as a "machine for knowing the world," a concept envisioned by documentary filmmaker Dziga Vertov in 1924.
The programme examines how films of all kinds not only have shaped global perceptions of space through history, and driven the boom of mass tourism, but also have perpetuated the colonial impulses to control, commodify, and objectify other cultures and territories. Through this exploration, Lovely, Lovely Planet(s) invites the viewer to reconsider historical and contemporary implications of travel and its ongoing legacy in global power relations.
Lovely, Lovely Planets also includes works like The Boat (2009) by Marco Pando and Postcards (1974) by Henri Plaat, which provide critical reflections on travel's legacies. The Boat looks at the persistent colonial inequalities in global mobility, symbolically depicting the dangerous journeys of migrants across the sea. Meanwhile, Postcards explores the travelogue format through a more experimental lens, questioning how the act of viewing and representing distant lands continues to shape our perceptions and memory of both place and people.
While celebrating the ease and elegance of travel, these films expose the ways in which transportation, industry and colonialism have been deeply entwined with the history of film. A real trip through space and time, all around our lovely, lovely planet.
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Production year
2025
Length
55 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
ResearchLabs 2025
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