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Serious Games 1–4 2010
This connects really well with Grégoire Chamayou's "Theory of the Drone", in that both seek to establish the role of ever-growing technologies with war. Farocki uses footage from American training facilities with minimal narration to show how new technologies have been produced to help those prepare, as well as cope with the traumas of war.
The term 'asymmetrical war' is thrown around quite a bit in this film -- this film definitely seems to focus on America's conflict with Afghanistan,…
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Poto and Cabengo 1979
hidden underneath the idiosyncratic, near-mythical quality the language the girls in the movie have created for themselves, lies a tale about the american dream and how american institutions function. following the family, it's clear that they want their children to develop as "normal human beings" - this unique language is not seen as something to foster, but something to eliminate so the girls can learn english and fit in with the rest of their peers. there's a lot to read…
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