Poster for Parallel I–IV

Parallel I–IV

2014 43 minutes

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Cinema’s onscreen worlds have always borne an indexical bond to the real. What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as the predominant medium of visual world-making? How does one’s relation to onscreen heroes shift when we no longer identify with real bodies? Harun Farocki’s four-part Parallel I–IV (2012–14) takes up these questions, tracing how, in just over 30 years, video games have developed from two-dimensional schematics to photorealistic environments.

Released

1st February 2014

12 years ago

Runtime

43 minutes

Finishes at 2:11pm

Directed by

Harun Farocki

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