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Strategic Cyber Defense: For
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War at a Distance |
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These three works – including the latest from 2003 spotlight
artist Harun Farocki – bring us up to the minute on the state
of technological warfare, military paranoia and the effects they
have on those caught in the middle. |
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The Third Tongue
Kwang-Ju Son | USA/South Korea | 14 min. | 16mm b&w | 2003 |
Canadian Premiere
Describe in English the following images: a cheese plate, pots
and pans, and bombed-out Korean cities. By inserting images from
Korea’s past, particularly footage from the Korean War, into
an ESL multiple choice quiz, The Third Tongue explores
the loss of historical identity in a post-colonial society and equates
power with the English language. Son raises an important question
as to why Koreans strive to learn the dominant economic language:
is it a process of natural evolution or is it based on a fear of
an old wound? A haunting look at the legacy of war. Winner of the
Award for Best Korean Short Film at the 2003 Pusan International
Film Festival.
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War at a Distance
Harun Farocki | Germany | 58 min. | video | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
A coolly terrifying glimpse of the future. In War at a Distance,
Farocki returns to themes explored in works such as Images of
the World and the Inscription of War, bringing them technologically
up to date. The automation of factory production is paralleled with
the automation of destruction in warfare, and a new world of machine
images is revealed – images not intended for human eyes, but
for the visual tracking systems of the digital age. The video traces
the history of missile guidance systems from WWII through the present
day using visual artifacts of machine guidance systems, as well
as training films, missile footage from the Gulf War, and flight
and battle simulations. |
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Strategic
Cyber Defense: For Top Military Officials
Dara Greenwald | USA | 4 min. | video | 2003 | Canadian Premiere
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) proclaims
as its mission the development of “imaginative, innovative
and often high-risk research ideas offering a significant technological
impact...” Included in this mission, apparently, is the production
of videos dramatizing various possible military scenarios, like
the one Dara Greenwald has re-edited here. Greenwald asks, “What
is the top US Department of Defense’s central research and
development organization telling top military officials about the
threat of the ‘international enemy’? And who is acting
in their training videos?”
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