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San Francisco Art Institute (Lecture Hall)
April 16 - April 16, 2015Info
San Francisco Art Institute800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133 Google Map »
Michael Klier, Der Riese (The Giant), (video still) 1982‒83, video, sound, 82 min.; Courtesy of the artist
Introduced by Doug Hall Co-presented with SFMOMA and the San Francisco Film Society Doug Hall, Storm and Stress (1986), video, sound, 47:52 min.; Principal photography: Jules Backus. Executive Producer: Kathy Rae Huffman. Collection SFMOMA, gift of the artist Michael Klier, Der Riese (The Giant, 1982‒83), video, sound, 82 min.; Courtesy the artist Storm and Stress is an early and important work by Hall that documents connections between landscape, media, and climatic conditions. Storm and Stress traces emergent conditions in a continuum between the theater of the news and severe weather events. For this screening, Hall also has selected Michael Klier’s landmark film Der Riese. The first film to be constructed entirely of surveillance footage, Der Riese presents a subtle critique of our technological hubris; and thirty years following its production, it remains a starkly unsettling portrait of the surveillance state. http://www.sfai.edu/exhibitions-public-events/detail/doug-hall-the-terrible-uncertainty-of-the-thing-described http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/587