| Title | File type | Publiseringsdato | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Festivalprogram for Meteor-festivalen 2011 | 2011 | Download |
Exercising the Real: Immersion
Exercising the Real: Immersion is an installation by the German filmmaker Harun Farocki.
In April 2010 Wikileaks published a decrypted video from the American forces, filmed from one of two Apache helicopters in 2007. The video shows how soldiers in one copter kill a small group of people in a deserted urban landscape in Baghdad. One of the fatalities turns out to be the Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, "armed" with a zoom lens.
Harun Farocki's two screen film Exercising the Real: Immersion happens to stand in post-relief to this event.
Information
(Objekt ID 17597)| Object type | Production |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Installation, Movie, Durational performance |
| Running period | October 23, 2011 — October 24, 2011 |
| Website | Harun Farocki |
| Last changed | 05.11.2025 |
| Create date | 05.06.2023 |
Requirements to venue
| Blackout | No |
| Last changed | 05.11.2025 |
| Create date | 05.06.2023 |
The film Exercising the Real: Immersion documents a variety of "immersion therapy" through which traumatised soldiers are to relive their experiences, retell them and act them out through advanced computer games.
The film was made in 2009 after a two day stay at Fort Lewis, Washington, where civilian therapists go through the computer program Virtual Iraq for military personnel having experienced traumatic events.
The patient, equipped with a joystick, headset and virtual reality glasses, navigates through desert landscapes and urban landscapes while being confronted with a therapist's systematic input of virtual ambush, screams and maimed persons.
Harun Farocki's Exercising the Real: Immersion was presented during the Prague Quadrennial project Intersection: Intimacy and Spectacle in 2011.
Source:
BIT Teatergarasjen, Meteor 2011. 04.09.2011: http://www.bit-teatergarasjen.no/article/422
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Harun Farocki | – Main producer |
| October 24, 2011 – Borggården, USF Verftet (METEOR) | Installation |
| October 23, 2011 – Borggården, USF Verftet (METEOR) | Installation |
| METEOR | October 23, 2011 |