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Part of the book: Spatial Violence and the Documentary Image

Patrick Brian Smith

Moving Image 15

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Abstract.  How can the machinations of late capitalism be visualised within moving image practice? How can contemporary non-fiction practices capture and critique the movements of contemporary transnational capital, an economic system that is itself an increasingly invisible machine of capture? By focusing on a variety of documentary works that all share a concern with examining late capitalism’s exploitative spatial logics, this chapter seeks to answer such questions. Key works considered include Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc (2014); Thomas Kneubühler, Forward Looking Statements (2014) and Relocation (FPIC) (2014); Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Trop tôt/Trop tard (1981); Ursula Biemann, Black Sea Files (2005); Harun Farocki, Interface (1995); and Allan Sekula, Fish Story (1995) and The Forgotten Space (2010, with Noël Burch).

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