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HOME INVASION

Graeme Arnfield
UK, 2023
90 min.

A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labor struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures.

What brings together the inventors of modern doorbells, D. W. Griffith and the leaders of the Luddite movement? A dream, or better said, a nightmare. In Home Invasion, Graeme Arnfield combines Harun Farocki’s unmistakable imprint (a preference for found images, for multimediality, for employing technical illustrations in Foucauldian analysis) with a style of humour that is both light-hearted and contemporary. What results is an extraordinary essay on the origins of the surveillance society and contemporary phobias regarding safety, as well as a compendium of historical forms of resistance against technologization. Seen, quite literally, through a focalised lens, what these images inspire is not a fear of burglars, but rather, the opposite: fear of the systems that are meant to protect. (Flavia Dima)

Data proiecție și locație

Saturday, 30th of September | 20:30

Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bd. Dacia, nr. 77
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Graeme Arnfield

Graeme Arnfield is an artist, filmmaker and composer living in London. Producing sensory essay films from networked imagery, his films use methods of investigative storytelling to explore issues of technology, ecology and history. He graduated with a Masters in Experimental Cinema at Kingston University.

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  • DIRECTOR: Graeme Arnfield
  • SCREENPLAY: Graeme Arnfield
  • EDITING: Graeme Arnfield
  • SOUND DESIGN: Baudoin Oosterlynck, Sarah Naylor
  • PRODUCER: Graeme Arnfield

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