Short film programme: Thousand Eyes

Short film program curated and introduced by Marcel Schwierin

This program is concerned with various forms of historic surveillance, through an anti-espionage animation, a portrait of an obsessive ins- pector, the encounter of a healer with a security guard, and the complete documentation of an assault by surveillance cameras.

Private Snafu: Spies, Chuck Jones, US 1943, 4 min
While German World War II propaganda privileged a rather monumental documentary style à la Riefenstahl and Ruttmann, the Americans produced a great deal of animation. Private Snafu: Spies is one of the funniest anti-German propaganda cartoons of all time. It is a warning for US soldiers against German spies.

From a Night Porter's Point of View, Krzysztof Kieslowski, PL 1977, 16 min
The documentary film portrays a night porter’s desire for total control over society.

Feelers (Esotropia Conversations II), Nadav Assor, US 2012, 16 min
Feelers staged an encounter between exponents of two completely opposite types of physical examination: a security guard and a healer.

Stopover in Dubai, Chris Marker, FR/UAE 2011, 27 min
Marker’s last video Stopover in Dubai is a found-footage film, nearly an objet trouvé. The original film was produced by the Dubai State Security service, of found CCTV footage tracking the assassins on their way to kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in his hotel room. Marker took the film as it is and added excerpts of a string quartet as soundtrack.

The films of the programme are in English or with English subtitles.

Event space: seminar room of the Edith-Russ-Haus