Eye / Machine II

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Eye / Machine II (2002)

Directed by Harun Farocki

· 15m

In Eye/Machine II, Farocki has brought together visual material from both military and civilian sectors, showing machines operating intelligently and what it is they see when working on the basis of image processing programs. The traditional man-machine distinction becomes reduced to "eye/machine"" where cameras are implanted into the machines as eyes. As a result of the Gulf War, the technology of warfare came to provide an innovative impulse, which boosted the development of civilian production. Farocki shows us computer simulated images looking like something out of science-fiction films: rockets steer towards islands set in a shining sea; apartment blocks are blown up; fighter aircraft fire at one another with rockets and defend themselves with virtual flares.

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Crew

Director
Harun Farocki
Screenplay
Harun Farocki

Details

Original title
Auge / Maschine II
Release date
2002-01-01
Runtime
15m
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German
Countries
Germany