Broadcast on the Austrian Television (ORF) in June 1972, TV & VT-Works comprises a series of ‘tele-actions’ in which a cigar-smoking newsreader is periodically interrupted by public interventions raising the question “Is this Art?”. Disrupting the smooth flow of information and thus the illusion of comprehending the world from one’s living room, these actions interrogate TV temporality to examine the mechanisms of production and spectatorship. A work of culture jamming avant la lettre.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
Also in this combined programme
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Introduction to Humanities
A film teacher begins her class with a fun camera exercise involving all the students. -
The Punched Tape of Life
Is everything recorded on film destined to become digital data, or does life still resist? -
No Archive Can Restore You
An exploration into the ‘sonic shadows’ that colonial moving images continue to generate. -
Frozen War (Hotel Diaries 1)
Sardonic reflections on the state of the world occasioned by a frozen news broadcast. -
Watching Words Becoming a Film (TXT.FLM #3)
Only words on screen: Asselberghs bridges political, avant-garde cinema and the ubiquitous telephone text message. -
USSA
Diaristic images of USA and USSR are inventively juxtaposed to stress not differences but similarities. -
Am I Human?
Lou hurls images of herself against torrents of loading files, digital code and media imagery. -
wandering through secret storms
Images of women doing office work are mixed with redacted FBI notations. Does freedom exist? -
Dreams Under Confinement
A sobering, chilling mash-up of frantic Chicago Police audio messages with sinister Google Maps imagery.
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 1969
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2024
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- Digital
