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Space Soldiers conquer the Universe by Stephen Gray
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Film Information: (5 mins) “Perhaps science fiction…can only try to reconstruct in vitro, down to the smallest details, the perimeters of a prior world, the events, the people, the ideologies of the past, emptied of their meaning, of their original purpose, but hallucinatory with retrospective truth.” - Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation Space Soldiers Conquer The Universe contrasts fantasy with the real in a cross fertilisation of artificial and authentic. A sense of place is presented as a theatrical model; a model with visible parts, an illustrative model, not a functional one. The mechanics of the spectacle are revealed. A presumption of the sublime is dissected in an attempt to reveal a romantic but always absent truth. As a descendent of Pop the work seduces, but as Arte Povera it then abandons the viewer. This is all we have. The slight of hand is revealed; there never was any magic. At least, not out there. Film Shown as part of Purescreen DVD*01. Film information Courtesy of Castlefield Gallery's Purescreen DVD*01 Date Screened: Jun 13 2005 |