DIM MOND DEC 13 | HARUN FAROCKI: VISION MACHINES (PROGRAM TIME CHANGE)
Workers Leaving the Factory revisits the first film ever to be shown in public and contemplates the significance of inscribing the space in front of the factory gates throughout the history of documentary and narrative film. I Thought I was Seeing Convicts focuses on surveillance images from a maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California, to parse the collusion of the field of vision and the sniper’s cross hairs—the camera and the gun. The Serious Games series observes the role that gaming technology plays in training, deploying and healing military personnel in contemporary warfare. Images of the World and the Inscription of War considers the implication of the camera’s lens in the construction of memory, meaning and history in the 20th Century. From the misinterpreted aerial images of Auschwitz during WWII to the the first photos taken of Algerian women in the 1960’s, optics have persisted in creating prosthetics that clarify, distort, diminish and expand our perception of the world.
7:00 pm (90min)
Workers Leaving the Factory | 1995. Video, 36 mins.
I Thought I was Seeing Convicts | 2000. Video, 25 mins.
Serious Games 1: Watson is Down | 2010. Video, 10mins.
Serious Games 3: Immersion | 2009. Video, 20mins.
8:45 pm (75min)
Images of the World and the Inscription of War | 1988. 16mm, 75 mins.
Harun Farocki: Vision Machines is programmed in conjunction with the Surrey Art Gallery’s presentation of Farocki’s 12-channel installation Deep Play, October 2- December 19, 2010. www.arts.surrey.ca
Thomas Elsaesser, “Introduction: Harun Farocki,” Senses of Cinema, July 2002. http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/02/21/farocki_intro.html
image: Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1988)
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