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WAR AT A DISTANCE
Harun Farocki
DEU 2003
59 min
V'03

When images of the Gulf War flooded the international media in 1991, 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, the filmmaker 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.

Credits
  • Harun Farocki
  • Ingo Kratisch
  • Matthias Rajmann
  • Harun Farocki
  • Max Reimann
  • Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Pfarrstraße 9496 10317 Berlin, Deutschland T 30 533 36 43 hfarocki@compuserve.com

Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Pfarrstraße 9496 10317 Berlin, Deutschland T 30 533 36 43 hfarocki@compuserve.com

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