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Film still from ‘Home Invasion’ by Graeme Arnfield, UK, 2023
A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labour struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema and contemporary surveillance cultures. Along the way producing a terrifying portrait of the technological ideologies that have shaped our present and the nightmares of the people they emerged from.
Made in bed with a mixture of found materials from archival patent illustrations, domestic security footage to suspenseful horror movie clips, soundtracked by historical prepared-piano pieces and manipulated field recordings – the film asks what is to be done with machines that don’t work for us? With systems that hinder radical futures, that profit off convenience and use our fears against us. What happens when our homes and our dreams have been invaded?
The film will be introduced by Graeme Arnfield.
Made in bed with a mixture of found materials from archival patent illustrations, domestic security footage to suspenseful horror movie clips, soundtracked by historical prepared-piano pieces and manipulated field recordings – the film asks what is to be done with machines that don’t work for us? With systems that hinder radical futures, that profit off convenience and use our fears against us. What happens when our homes and our dreams have been invaded?
The film will be introduced by Graeme Arnfield.
Graeme Arnfield is an artist filmmaker and composer living in London, raised in Cheshire, UK. Producing sensory essay films from networked imagery his films use methods of investigative storytelling to explore issues of technology, ecology and history. Research topics have included: the politics of digital networks, the distribution of ecological matter such as peat and asbestos and the adaptive circulation of global and local histories. His work has been presented worldwide including Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Dokufest, Sonic Acts Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale, Fantasia Festival, Cripta747, Berlinische Gallerie, Signal Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and on e-flux & Vdrome. His work is distributed by LUX, Arsenal and Square Eyes. He is currently working on his second feature length documentary, "The Case Against Space", expected to premiere in 2025.
06:30 pm
Wed, 26 Jun 2024
Cinema 1
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This film is 90 minutes long
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