The artist imitates a succession of profile pictures of Facebook users in a reflection on the social networking site as a breeding ground for narcissism. With its audio track evolving from bomb sounds to entertaining J-pop, the piece evokes an evolution from harsh reality to denial.
Also in this combined programme
-
Adam
A young man navigates through the cityscapes of contemporary Cairo with its contrasting crowds and finds himself out of place and struggling to be hea
-
Signals: Power Cut
-
-
One Eye Open
A search for the artist’s roots as he travels to Japan and investigates a world that is partly foreign and fascinating, partly familiar.
-
Signals: Power Cut
-
-
Master-Slave Dialectic
Who is the boss? The director, thinking and self-assured or the camera, a mindless machine? A power struggle with unexpected results.
-
Signals: Power Cut
-
-
E.D.L.
A video portrait of Lebanon’s national electricity building as an homage to a modernist project, linked to the very construction of Lebanon’s modern s
-
Signals: Power Cut
-
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- DVD
You may also like this
-
Sturm: Ahmonseto
In the Ahmonseto textile factory, capitalism cuts to the bone and the workers pay the price.
-
Signals: Power Cut
-
-
Pipe Dreams
A memorable phone call between the Syrian cosmonaut Muhammed Faris (part of a Russian space mission) and the late president Hafez al-Assad.
-
Signals: Power Cut
-
-
Adam
A young man navigates through the cityscapes of contemporary Cairo with its contrasting crowds and finds himself out of place and struggling to be hea
-
Signals: Power Cut
-