A monthly cultural studies film session hosted by cultural researcher and author Viriya Sawangchot. This month will be on Harun Farocki's essay film on how we 'see'.
Screening starts at 8pm and will be followed by a casual discussion.
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IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR
Made in 1988, 43 years after the end of the second world war, Harun Farocki’s Images of The World and the Inscription of War focuses on the ‘blind spots’ in the interpretation of aerial photographs taken by American forces during an American bombing raid in 1944 of the IG Farben industrial plant in Germany. Farocki thereby puts his finger on the essence of media violence, the links between war and photography, and explores how perception during times of conflict is conditioned by what people want to see, rendering observers as either passive accomplices or potential victims in times of war. Just as John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” drew attention to the importance of context for images such as landscape painting in relation to say advertising, Images of the World and the Inscription of War ‘draws bede’ on the ways in which official image production works both at the time it is done and as it changes over time to reflect new conditions.
VIRIYA SAWANGCHOT
A cultural researcher based in Bangkok, Thailand. He was an API senior fellow (2013-2014), Asian Public Intellectual program, Nippon Foundation, and has previously taught in Cultural Studies program, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University, Thailand.
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