Life Day (fortunes of war 1993 - )

Life Day (fortunes of war) Practice Von Stroheim 11.1.13 In a keynote speech delivered at the London Film Festival in 2010 Ken Loach states only 3.3% of the films shown on British television are from European and World Cinema meaning the rest of Europe and the whole of the World. Loach compares this to a library having one aisle with 63 to 80% North American fiction, on another aisle 15 to 30% half North American and half British fiction and the last row with a pitiful 2 to 3% representing the whole World. ‘So we know where the power’s at.’

Does the possibility of documenting war with impartiality any longer exist post Iraq 2003? The shell-shocked soldier portrayed by McCullin in 1968 becomes a last marker for sensationalism; its hollow grotesque gaze previewing a 21st century mediatic state. As Dean Acheson quipped ‘A memorandum is not written to inform the reader but to protect the writer’. Here one holds a canny description of the media. Journalists amble castled in hotels tourists to be baited by the press conference augmented and sallied by military and government. Print and visual information purport to share a common dedicated register. Media info an extraordinary medium in itself even more so as it stages like photography, documents like photography. It can compare with the visual arts. It also explains and in so doing explains its own escapism. Media infos pertaining to events in the world are grown plantation like, a type of artificial coral reef. Why? For it must clear its name from all fugitive charges. Or as Le Maitre Chat, Le Chat Botte, Puss in Boots use trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and lowborn master. Who might that be?

The consumer of information not unlike the Negro slave has been given that which is necessary to perform the task in the field or house but at no point must he be taught to read or understand. Consequently without flight of passion one does not suppose to have a point of view for it has to be formed and made available as an antecedent. Consumer info is somehow overwhelmingly reasonable proposing the re-enactment of the same point in time as the dominant view over time’s agnation.

And the biological life span of the consumer works conveniently to mask what professionals call in the film industry continuity. And so come forth the specialists who have been trained to expedite a specific vision of knowledge to answer any criteria or sub criteria safeguarding the paradigm. The specialists are educated to legitimate the dissemination of this line of thought with graphics and repeats until it loops as rhetoric. The specialists are trained to expedite a specific vision of the knowledge of the world.