Screening: Machines in Flames
Join Z-Space members for a screening of Machines in Flames, which finds a secret history of destruction by following the footsteps of a clandestine group of French computer workers from the 1980s.
Screening is free with a suggested donation ($6) for the filmmakers. Choose your registration below!
Film Description
Machines in Flames (2022, 50min) is a cinematic search for ‘CLODO’, an elusive group that started bombing computer firms in 1980 Toulouse only to disappear 3 years later without ever being caught. Journeying through the cybernetic nodes of military, industrial, and socialist development, the film exposes how recording devices fail to collect the ashes of history. The film combines archival traces, a viral desktop choreography, and late-night video recordings of CLODO’s targets into an investigation of self-destruction.
The film is the debut work of the Destructionist International, and the first in a series of films on the appetite for abolition in ultra-leftism. It was first distributed through a network of self-erasing USB data sticks dropped outside corporate campuses.
Credits:
Written and Directed by Andrew Culp & Thomas Dekeyser
Voiceover and Music Composition by Dana Papachristou, NMA Studios
Audio Mastering by Fasma Twist
Subtitles and Translation by Jackie Hensy, Guy E., Claude O.
Special Thanks to Centre de Recherches sur l’Alternative Sociale. Juan-Manuel Palomo, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Adrian Drummond-Cole and Eden Consenstein, Alex Galloway, Zach Blas
With support from a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
2022, Destructionist International