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Categories: Film
Relevant passages:
Inke Arns «Social Technologies
Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication»
Michael Klier
«Der Riese»
An unconventionally constructed essay video on video surveillance in public space.
The video uses documentary material from remote-control surveillance cameras on public streets, squares, shopping malls, and transit spaces like airports and train stations, as well as pictures from banks, department stores, supermarkets, and private grounds and buildings. The combination of various footage in a realistic style creates the impression of a central surveillance apparatus as an anonymous, powerful subject that omnipresently sees everything without itself being visible.
Reinhard Wolf
