Parallel III

Harun Farocki

2014 | 00:07:21 | Germany | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Environment, History, Media Analysis, Video games

The four‐part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds.

"Computer animations are currently becoming a general model, surpassing film. In films, there is the wind that blows and the wind that is produced by a wind machine. Computer images do not have two kinds of wind."

— Harun Farocki


Parallel III seeks out the backdrops of the game worlds and the nature of their digital objects. It reveals digital worlds which take the form of discs floating in the universe — reminiscent of pre-Hellenistic conceptions of the universe. The animated worlds appear as one-sided theatre stages, flat backdrops revealed only by the movements of an omniscient camera. The objects in the worlds often do not react to "natural forces." Each of their properties must be separately constructed and assigned to them.

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Exhibitions + Festivals

Belo Horizonte Film festival, Brazil, 2014

BFI International Film Festival, London, 2014

Related Titles

Parallel I
Parallel II
Parallel IV