Screening
Film Screening: War at a Distance
11 Feb 2015
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Tickets are £5.00 and can be purchased on our website http://mosaicrooms.org/event/film-screening-war-distance/
Address
- Tower House
- 226 Cromwell Road
- London
England - SW5 0SW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Earls Court Tube
Please join us for a screening of Harun Farocki's film War at a Distance.
About
In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those generated on computer. This loss of bearings was to change forever our way of deciphering what we see. The image is no longer used only as testimony, but also as an indispensable link in a process of production and destruction. This is the central premise of “War at a Distance”, which continues the deconstruction of claims to visual objectivity Harun Farocki developed in his earlier work. With the help of archival and original material, Farocki sets out in effect to define the relationship between military strategy and industrial production and sheds light on how the technology of war finds applications in everyday life.
Harun Farocki (1944-2014) was born in German-annexed Czechoslovakia. In addition to teaching posts in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, Munich and Stuttgart, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Farocki made close to 120 films, including feature films, essay films and documentaries. He worked in collaboration with other filmmakers as a scriptwriter, actor and producer. He wrote for numerous publications, and from 1974 to 1984 he was editor and author of the magazine Filmkritik. His work has shown in many national and international exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums.
German with English subtitles | 2003| 58mins