Armas para salvar hombres, imágenes para someterlos
[EN] The work presented here - Weapons to save men, images to subdue them - is an audiovisual piece of five minutes that reflects on how the processes of progress and rationalization that began with the Enlightenment project have meant and continue to mean, in the same way, barbarism. The title refe...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/180118 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/180118 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Video Collage Progress Barbarism War Vídeo Progreso Barbarie Guerra |
| Sumario: | [EN] The work presented here - Weapons to save men, images to subdue them - is an audiovisual piece of five minutes that reflects on how the processes of progress and rationalization that began with the Enlightenment project have meant and continue to mean, in the same way, barbarism. The title refers to declarations made by the inventor of the first machine gun, Richard Jordan Gatling, in which he justified his invention by the saving of soldiers' lives that his new automatic rifle would mean, because it would require fewer combatants in battle. In this contradictory argument in which it is proposed that the use of a weapon can save lives, the main thesis of the project arises. The video is composed of appropriate images in which we see, for example, some photographic studies on the movement of Etienne Jules-Marey, as well as the photographic revolver he invented, the video of Operation Teapot in 1955 in which the effects of the nuclear bomb were tested in the reproduction of a village, or war simulators used in the army. Using collage as the main technique of montage and a deconstructive strategy of appropriate material - the images are cut, superimposed and juxtaposed in a plastic way - relations and contrasts are established between the different materials that compose the video. |
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