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Vacuum Cleaner or Submachine Gun: A Traveling Cinema for Engineers

Harun Farocki

According to general practice and perception, a political film is a variation of the bourgeois film: sex film, adventure film, political film. What’s needed is to turn film into a variant of politics: analysis, demonstrations, actions, and, in between, films.

If we are going to talk of political film here, then we must talk about the political work out of which it comes and in which it is situated. The film has no title, but the political work to which it contributes does: It is called Technology Campaign.

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Vacuum Cleaner or Submachine Gun: A Traveling Cinema for Engineers

Harun Farocki

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