constellations: commentary

commentary

(798) Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of the state capitals

(792) Jazz Protest Music: The Freedom Now Suite

(782) Making Mothers of Fake Babies

(780) Debunking the "Eat Local" Myth

(773) The discourse of engineering needs to be expanded

(766) Facebook Viral Campaign

(764) Tracking the trackers: Unmasking wiki

(762) Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians

(761) The videogame based on the McDonald's production chain

(760) Plastic Bottles: Five minutes worth of consumption in North America

(751) Humanities: meaning, value, and significance

(744) The mystery of discourse is not order, but disorder, incoherence

(735) Yes Prime Minister: entertaining parody of the Australian Prime Minister

(733) Chernobyl Legacy: photographic essay with audio commentary

(731) Kingdom of Piracy: online, open work space to explore the free sharing of digital content

(724) A devout Christian is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else

(722) Regionalisation: Educational Reform in New Zealand

(718) Rip, Mix, Burn, Autolink

(698) Bodymouse: the potential of biomedical science?

(695) Jihad videos posted on YouTube website

(680) Bright: undermining the heterosexual love triangle in the heterosexual narrative

(677) Parody Through Recurring Motifs of Suspense and Clichés of Plot

(672) Symbolic Control Through Appropriation of Local Stories

(663) Citizen Reporting of the London Bombings

(613) New Zealand is not naive to the great cost of waging war

(602) art and design students look at surveillance

(596) Database of Virtual Art: a richly interlinked online repository

(588) Boal: the intervention of the art of tragedy

(574) (un)Smart-Mobs: Text-Messages Used to Incite Racial Violence at NSW's Cronulla beach

(567) Terra Nova: collaborative weblog about virtual worlds

(559) Diagnosing Iranian history in terms of European past

(546) Regulation Through Discourses/Practices

(529) the War on Terror and other conservative catchphrases

(520) historical materialism: offering critical resources for the de-reification of capitalism

(519) ethics question satirising Australian Prime Minister

(518) industrialisation: pin making and the the division of labour

(506) Culture Jamming: Australian International University

(505) Culture Jamming the Forbes Global CEO Conference

(496) Enemy Image: where is the human tragedy?

(494) NICHT loschbares Feuer / Inextinguishable Fire

http://folksonomy.org.uk/?s=494

Simon Perkins (21-08-2005)

Utterance:

Farocki's film NICHT loschbares Feuer opens with a dramatic and destructive gesture. "During a long shot one sees, in close up, the author who sits at a table in a plain room. While he reads a Vietnamese's witness statement in a flat voice, his eyes meet the camera several times. The statement recounts an attack of a village by the American Air Force, and the use of Napalm, this "inextinguishable fire" that lent the first film its title. Near the end of the statement, he looks up from the paper in his hand directly into the camera and says: "How can we show you napalm in action? And how can we show you the damage caused by napalm? If we show you pictures of napalm damage, you'll close your eyes. First you'll close your eyes to the pictures; then you'll close your eyes to the memory.... Then you'll close your eyes to the facts.... then you'll close your eyes to the connections between them ... We can give you only a weak demonstration of how napalm works. "Then Farocki picks up a burning cigarette while the camera draws closer to show him extinguish the cigarette on the back of his hand. An off-camera voice explains, that a cigarette burns with an average 500 degrees, whereas Napalm burns with 4000 degrees. (...) NICHT loschbares Feuer can be distinguished from most of the other films that were shot in protest against the Vietnam War. This film wants to demonstrate the industrial and personal relations around the production of war, and it wants to point out western scientist's responsibilities for the atrocities committed by American troops in Vietnam..."[1][1] Vom Guerillakino zum Essayfilm. Werkmonographie eines deutschen Autorenfilmers. Tilman Baumgartel. Würzburg: 1997.