Where: Squeaky Wheel, 175 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, NY 14201
716-884-7172
www.squeaky.org (http://www.squeaky.org)
Admission: $5 members/$4 non-members
THE FILMS:
THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
(Diane Nerwen, video, color, 5 mins)
In The Thief of Baghdad (2003), Diane Nerwen continues her practice of appropriating arresting imagery from film and mixing it with politically charged dialogue. Condensing the beauty and exoticism of the mystical capital of Baghdad, she slips in a newly realized paradigm of domination. As in much of her work, Nerwen explores the allure of place, film's ability to reflect and create desire, as well as the conceit that the video's images and soundtrack are part of same narrative.
IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR
(Harun Farocki, 16 mm, 75 mins.) German with English subtitles.
The German-Egyptian filmmaker Harun Farocki is one of the most influential documentarians alive today. His thought-provoking work is not as much about events and people as it is about ideas and mechanisms in a larger cultural context. A meditation on vision and power inspired by photos of Auschwitz taken by American bomber pilots during WW2, IMAGES OF THE WORLD creates striking, deeply meaningful connections between military reconnaissance and the state of the world.
