Optical Vacuum

Nowhere else is talk of the "panoptic era" - an eye that sees everything yet remains elusive - clearer than in the medium that has taken omnipresence and fleetingness to a global scale: the Internet. On the Internet, the paradigm known thus far for our imaging apparatus has become invalid: there is no longer a single, central perspective, but instead, a myriad of viewing angles that broadcast over webcams, pumping incessant images into the digital data stream. The "vacuum" in the title of Dariusz Kowalski´s 55-minute cinematic essay is therefore not a void, but a powerful generator, an unremitting...

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Orig. Title
Optical Vacuum
Year
2008
Country
Austria
Duration
55 min
Director
Dariusz Kowalski
Category
Essay
Orig. Language
English
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