Since the Gulf War in 1991, warfare and reporting it have become hyper technological affairs, in which real and computer-generated images cannot be distinguished any more. With the aid of new and also unique archive material, Farocki sketches a picture of the relationship between military strategy and industrial production and shows how war technology finds its way into everyday use.
Using different techniques (animation, agitprop, montage, found footage, documentary and digital processing) the observation of war is viewed from different perspectives in six interrelated parts.…