Short film program curated and introduced by Marcel Schwierin

The program shows historical forms of surveillance: an anti-espionage cartoon, the portrait of an obsessive controller, the encounter of a healer with a security guard and the complete documentation of a deadly attack by surveillance cameras.

Private Snafu: Spies, Chuck Jones, US 1943, 4 min
While the Germans tended to rely on a monumental documentary film style à la Riefenstahl and Ruttmann in their Second World War propaganda, the Americans produced plenty of animations. Private Snafu: Spies is one of the funniest anti-German propaganda cartoons, designed to warn American soldiers of the omnipresent German spies.

From a Night Porter’s Point of View, Krzysztof Kieslowski, PL 1977, 16 min
The documentary portrays a night watchman with a desire for total social control.

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

Stopover in Dubai, Chris Marker, FR/UAE 2011, 27 min
Marker’s latest video Stopover in Dubai is a found-footage film, almost a readymade. The original film was produced by Dubai’s state security and is based on surveillance camera footage that traced the path of the assassins on their way to the attack on Mahmud al-Mabhuh. Marker took over the film unchanged and added excerpts from a string quartet as a soundtrack.

The films in the program are in English or with English subtitles.

Venue: Seminar room of the Edith-Russ-Haus