In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.

“Immersion” shows a variation of the same training program. In this case it is recreating the traumatic experiences of soldiers during the war for therapeutic purposes. The soldiers are being trained and rehabilitated through virtual reality recalling their memories. Immersion was flmed in Fort Louis, near Seattle, during a treatment of PTSD.

“Immersion” shows a variation of the same training program. In this case it is recreating the traumatic experiences of soldiers during the war for therapeutic purposes. The soldiers are being trained and rehabilitated through virtual reality recalling their memories. Immersion was flmed in Fort Louis, near Seattle, during a treatment of PTSD.

In this fourth of a four part series, media artist Harun Farocki explores the interplay between modern warfare and electronic media using computer simulation and documentary footage. Originally presented as a simultaneous four-screen gallery video installation, the separate films are available exclusively on realeyz.tv. 　　Director's Notes to part IV: 　　“This chapter considers the high degree of similarity between the images used in briefing for war and those used in debriefing once it’s over. There is one difference, however: the program for recalling traumatic experiences is slightly cheaper. Here, nothing and nobody casts a shadow.” 　　(Harun Farocki)

In this fourth of a four part series, media artist Harun Farocki explores the interplay between modern warfare and electronic media using computer simulation and documentary footage. Originally presented as a simultaneous four-screen gallery video installation, the separate films are available exclusively on realeyz.tv. 　　Director's Notes to part IV: 　　“This chapter considers the high degree of similarity between the images used in briefing for war and those used in debriefing once it’s over. There is one difference, however: the program for recalling traumatic experiences is slightly cheaper. Here, nothing and nobody casts a shadow.” 　　(Harun Farocki)

In the autumn of 2009 we filmed a drill at the Marine Corps Base 29 Palms in California. Four Marines sitting in a class represented the crew of a tank. They had laptops in front of them on which they steered their own vehicle and watched others in the unit being driven through a Computer-AnimationLandscape. The simulated Afghan is based on geographical data out of Afghanistan. A street in the computer landscape runs exactly as it would in the real Afghanistan; the same holds for every tree, the vegetation on the ground or the mountain ranges. The instructor places explosive devices and sets insurgents out in the area. A sniper shot the tank gunner, which we documented with the camera. When the tank drives over the fallow it kicks up a dust tail. The more vegetation there is, the less dust. On the asphalt street, no dust. Even with all this attention to detail, death in the computer game is still something different than the real one.

In the autumn of 2009 we filmed a drill at the Marine Corps Base 29 Palms in California. Four Marines sitting in a class represented the crew of a tank. They had laptops in front of them on which they steered their own vehicle and watched others in the unit being driven through a Computer-AnimationLandscape. The simulated Afghan is based on geographical data out of Afghanistan. A street in the computer landscape runs exactly as it would in the real Afghanistan; the same holds for every tree, the vegetation on the ground or the mountain ranges. The instructor places explosive devices and sets insurgents out in the area. A sniper shot the tank gunner, which we documented with the camera. When the tank drives over the fallow it kicks up a dust tail. The more vegetation there is, the less dust. On the asphalt street, no dust. Even with all this attention to detail, death in the computer game is still something different than the real one.

Again, in 29 Palms, we embarked on an exercise with around 300 extras who represented both the Afghan and Iraqi population. A few dozen Marines were on guard and went out on patrol. The town where the maneuver was carried out was on a slight rising in the desert and its buildings were made from containers. It looked as though we had modeled reality on a computer animation.

Again, in 29 Palms, we embarked on an exercise with around 300 extras who represented both the Afghan and Iraqi population. A few dozen Marines were on guard and went out on patrol. The town where the maneuver was carried out was on a slight rising in the desert and its buildings were made from containers. It looked as though we had modeled reality on a computer animation.

This is a collection of five satyrical short films, including little intermision talk: 　　1) "Kak Sozdavalsya Robinzon" (How Robinson was Created) - writer is comissioned to make soviet version of Robinson Cruzoe; 　　2) "Istoriya s Pirozhkami" (Incident with Pastries) - customer has problems paying for pastries, because he has eaten them before getting to the counter; 　　3) "Inostrantsy" (Foreigners) - about russian people who want to be more like western people; 　　4) "Priyatnogo Appetita" (Bon Appetit) - one episode for restaurant life; 　　5) "Pyos Baros i Neobchainy Kross" (Barbos the hound and Unusual Cross-country Race) - first appearance of later famous Morgunov/Nikulin/Vitsin trio in tale about fishing with dinamite instead of fishing rods