KIT intermedia

Glad to present the second film from a series of Harun Farocki screenings.
This film works with psycho mechanisms of the repressive system, in this case the object of the search is…the shopping world.

“I shop therefore I am” : what rhetoric and logic are imbedded into this vicious script. tomorrow, FRIDAY from 5pm. at the seminarrom.

The Creators of the Shopping Worlds
a film by Harun Farocki / 2001  / 72 min.

when: from 17.00, Friday, April 22, 2005
where: SEMINARROM

nomeda & gediminas urbonas : a film screening program: open for ALL

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ON FILM
Shopping is an everyday cultural act; it is inevitable, taken for granted. Entering into the world of shopping – the world of shopping malls – can be a Dantean voyage into hell or a redeeming ceremony of Communion. Everyone is familiar with this experience and knows what a mall looks like. This self-evident phenomenon is, however, the result of a highly complex process. The designing of shopping malls is
overseen by an army of planners, managers and scientists: there are consultants, re-launch analysts, a central association, mall magazines.
6000 guests and laboratories attended an annual convention in Las Vegas at which such questions were investigated as where the gaze of a customer falls and how a “spontaneous” purchase can be induced. Farocki shows how mall producers look at malls when they want to find out, for example, how passers-by move, where they stop and where they reach for an article. He adds these images to the everyday ones – and gives them a magical charge.

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on HARUN FAROCKI
1944: born in Novy Jicin (Neutitschein), in German-annexed Czechoslovakia.
1966-68: attended the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB).

After teaching posts in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, Munich and Stuttgart Farocki took up a visiting , professorship at the University of California, Berkeley from 1993-1999.

Farockis has made close to 90 films, including three feature films, essay films and documentaries. Produced numerous publications, exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums.
1974-1984: editor and author of the magazine Filmkritik (München).

Since 2004 visiting professor at the Akademie für Bildende Künste,
Vienna,Austria;

screening of the film “I Thouht I was Seeing Convicts”
by Harun Farocki / 2000 / 25 min.

It is part of a seria of Harun Farocki films, that are on the way to be presented at the screening series organized as part of “intermedia input:open for ALL”.

WELCOME to the screening! more info below.

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“I Thouht I was Seeing Convicts”
by Harun Farocki / 2000 / 25 min.

when:
from 17.00, Wednesday, April 20, 2005

where:
SEMINARROM

introduction:
Gediminas Urbonas

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on HARUN FAROCKI

1944: born in Novy Jicin (Neutitschein), in German-annexed
Czechoslovakia.

1966-68: attended the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB).

After teaching posts in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, Munich and Stuttgart Farocki took up a visiting , professorship at the University of California, Berkeley from 1993-1999.

Farockis has made close to 90 films, including three feature films, essay films and documentaries. He produced numerous publications, exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums.

1974-1984: editor and author of the magazine Filmkritik (München).

Since 2004 visiting professor at the Akademie für Bildende Künste, Vienna,Austria;

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ON FILM: I Thouht I was Seeing Convicts

Images from the maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. The surveillance camera shows a pie-shaped segment: a conrete-paved yard where the prisoners, dressed in shorts and mostly shirtless, are allowed to spend a half an hour a day. A convict attacks another, upon which those uninvolved lay themselves flat on the ground, their arms
over their heads.

Thy know what comes now: the guard will call out a warning and the fire rubber bullets. If the convicts do not stop fighting now, the guard will shoot for real. The picures are silent, the trail of gun smoke drifts across the picture.

The camera and the gun are right next to each other. The field of vision and the gun viewfinder fall together…

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