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Parallel I-IV
Parallel I-IV
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PARALLEL I-IV

Directed by Harun Farocki
Germany, 2014
Documentary, Short

Synopsis

What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as the predominant medium of visual world-making? Harun Farocki’s four-part Parallel I–IV (2012–14) takes up this question tracing how video games have developed from two-dimensional schematics to photorealistic environments.

Synopsis

What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as the predominant medium of visual world-making? Harun Farocki’s four-part Parallel I–IV (2012–14) takes up this question tracing how video games have developed from two-dimensional schematics to photorealistic environments.