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Harun Farocki - Three Double ScreeningsSimpleViewer requires JavaScript and the Flash Player.Get Flash.
Harun Farocki (b. 1944) is a German filmmaker and visual artist, one of the most important today. His works on matters of critical theory and social and political analysis bring to mind "cinema-thought". Farocki uses archive material refering to the minute observation of the mechanisms of capitalism, reality and its representations. He questions the points of view and the transformations induced by media technology and the increasingly more indistinct perceptions between "realities" and "simulations" - and thus he is also a theoretician and media critic. Along with doclisboa's retrospective, this exhibition presents three of his installations, which have been shown, or even co-produced, by some of the most important institutions, such as the Kassel Documenta, the Galerie du Jeu de Paume in Paris or the Bienal de Arte de São Paulo. Schnittstelle/Interface is one of Farocki's best works, a commentary on some of his own films, analysing the question of what it means to work with pre-existing images on the editing table. Watson is Down and Immersion are part of the Serious Games series and come under a vector which Farocki has been working on for 20 years, since the Gulf War: the use of virtual technology for military purposes.
With the special support of Hiscox 7 OCT - 6 NOV Galeria Palácio Galveias |
OCTOBER
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