Creative Cities is a documentary that takes three vibrant and

international art scenes as the vantage point from which to

look at cities with emergent economies that have been

dramatically impacted by recent and intense processes of

globalization.  Cities like Beijing, Delhi, and Mexico City have

developed cosmopolitan artistic elites at the same time as

uneven capitalist development has created a panorama

of contrasts – sometimes rich, sometimes jarring. 

How fertile are such contrasts for the artistic imagination?

How transnational are universal values?

Artworks will guide us through cities while key actors of each

art scene and their work will reveal cultural specificities that

will stimulate our curiosity and challenge our understanding

of modernity, democracy and globality.

peripheral visions on art and society