
FILM CLUB: The Perverts Guide To Ideology (2012)
FILM CLUB presents
The Perverts Guide To Ideology (2012)
129 min
Cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek goes on an entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Žižek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies.
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How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013) ‧ 16 mins
Upcoming Attractions ‧ 5 mins
Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0uHqXeTd3o
Also being shown:
How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File
Artist and critic Hito Steyerl's video works explore how images are produced, circulated, and shared. The artist has referred to images as a "condensation of social forces," suggesting that through them we can trace the underlying systems of the contemporary world.
In this satirical take on instructional films, Steyerl demonstrates several tongue-in-cheek strategies for remaining "unseen" in a world subject to new, sophisticated means of surveillance—pointing to the ways in which our technologies encroach on physical experience.