THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FILM PREMIERE: "McGunner05” (May 10-16)

Written By Michael Workman

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In 'MCGUNNER05' (2022), footage of Saddam Hussein’s US occupied palace is documented by McGunner05, a US soldier.

A documentary video, played side by side on screen, creates a gutter of "doubling" or "afblau". Through the facade of paired videos, an outward appearance emerges that reveals a less pleasant reality.

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"While in letting things say themselves, we rest in them, while we let things say themselves….and while yet even in the establishing of facts we meet with a doubling which to some extent arises from the things themselves, in the process of intending we go from ourselves toward things. We do not thereby have a dead image of something, but we are dealing, with a living movement toward what is intended (see PG 107; PI-455-6; PG 98; PG109)."

-Brand, Gerd, The Essential Wittgenstein (Basic Books, Inc.), 24.

Runtime: 9 minutes 56 seconds
Best Viewed: Cinema Presentation

Director Biography - Pamela Valfer
Pamela Valfer (1971) is a German-American interdisciplinary artist who uses a variety of approaches to explore how media- and public spaces are politicized. She currently resides in Pasadena, working as an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at Chaffey College.

Credits:
Project Type: Animation, Experimental, Short
Runtime: 17 minutes 17 seconds
Completion Date: October 7, 2022
Production Budget: 0 USD
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Shooting Format: digital
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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