https://machinesinflames.com Machines in Flames Sat, 22 Apr 2023 11:10:52 +0000 https://machinesinflames.com en https://machinesinflames.com/0-Trailer Sat, 11 Dec 2021 04:09:17 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/0-Trailer https://machinesinflames.com/1-Synopsis Sat, 11 Feb 2023 12:40:45 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/1-Synopsis <img width="1944" height="2880" width_o="1944" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0609d5eb2c095f3bc5a72cfb3fcc27a54fff8a2d46f287c3603ec8a56c63ccce/Machines-in-Flames--Poster-1.png" data-mid="168034587" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0609d5eb2c095f3bc5a72cfb3fcc27a54fff8a2d46f287c3603ec8a56c63ccce/Machines-in-Flames--Poster-1.png" /> Machines in Flames (2022, 50min) finds a secret history of destruction by following the footsteps of a clandestine group of French computer workers from the 1980s. In 1980s Toulouse, an elusive group began bombing computer companies. ‘CLODO’ disappeared after three years, without ever being caught or ever to be heard of again. Two film makers launch an investigation into CLODO, looking for answers, motivations and identities, but are soon frustrated by a collective that struck in the dead of night, leaving in their tracks only ashes and the sporadic line of cryptic graffiti. The film combines archival traces, a viral desktop choreography, and late-night video recordings of CLODO’s targets into a meditation on computation, destruction, and the lure of archives. https://machinesinflames.com/2-Cast Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:37:31 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/2-Cast The Destructionist International is an art-theory collective dedicated to the negative in all of its forms. It is driven by a shared inclination: a taste for the fury of destruction, away from the dull submission of situations to reasoned judgement. The group works across a variety of creative mediums (text, image, video, sound) and themes (militancy, sabotage, technology, liberation). <img width="400" height="400" width_o="400" height_o="400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/304446da4db51d83c4e5dcd95eae93c113875ba813e5df65c134c9d3e58ddf80/8JOuvxS1_400x400.png" data-mid="168031411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/304446da4db51d83c4e5dcd95eae93c113875ba813e5df65c134c9d3e58ddf80/8JOuvxS1_400x400.png" /> <img width="640" height="640" width_o="640" height_o="640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2334f59eb5e3637949e75362151f1cc01f873f69be72d9568c9012f74381b29/1400800p1707EDNmainAndrew-CalArts-Bio.jpg" data-mid="168034393" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/a2334f59eb5e3637949e75362151f1cc01f873f69be72d9568c9012f74381b29/1400800p1707EDNmainAndrew-CalArts-Bio.jpg" /> <img width="189" height="189" width_o="189" height_o="189" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6deb9e9313d15c44bf95eba70df9bfe25e5866f94487c187b137fc14f64d2dee/Dana-Papachristou.jpg" data-mid="168038017" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/189/i/6deb9e9313d15c44bf95eba70df9bfe25e5866f94487c187b137fc14f64d2dee/Dana-Papachristou.jpg" /> Direction and production: Thomas Dekeyser is a cultural geographer and filmmaker at the Centre for the GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. He specialises in experimental films that dig into the complex politics of digital technologies, refusal, and militant histories. Direction and production: Andrew Culp is a media theorist and maker at the California Institute of the Arts. His writing has been published in a dozen languages, including the books Dark Deleuze and A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal. Sound production and voice-over: Dana Papachristou provided Machines in Flames with its unique moody sound composition and voice-over. She is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist and musicologist, who (co-)founded Aesthate Research Centre and akoo-o, a collective active in walking, geo-location, sound, anthropology and media studies. https://machinesinflames.com/3-Photo-gallery Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:37:30 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/3-Photo-gallery <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c83c0ab3ea6955b082480529694cfc5dc44991a4f00c5d4d1dd099cfe9a7ce4/still-1.png" data-mid="168034662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c83c0ab3ea6955b082480529694cfc5dc44991a4f00c5d4d1dd099cfe9a7ce4/still-1.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d765e5b530b2e07c8444f8e8027140dd44775a80c14b9071111d027dfda69c32/still-2.png" data-mid="168034663" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d765e5b530b2e07c8444f8e8027140dd44775a80c14b9071111d027dfda69c32/still-2.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e0880a183aedb8d9de67df5dde4d61f8a79b8f00d28546dbdee0b4987a1d1fa/still-3.png" data-mid="168034664" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e0880a183aedb8d9de67df5dde4d61f8a79b8f00d28546dbdee0b4987a1d1fa/still-3.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cf3c1bd79e6d85dd5ddc2d993ee5debaab9c4276509e0b6f875828192191fdf/still-4.png" data-mid="168034665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cf3c1bd79e6d85dd5ddc2d993ee5debaab9c4276509e0b6f875828192191fdf/still-4.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fefbfca9cd67cddea5b2f4d2ed8d5973a722a61c8304f73b5d0eb967d50cce58/still-5.png" data-mid="168034666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fefbfca9cd67cddea5b2f4d2ed8d5973a722a61c8304f73b5d0eb967d50cce58/still-5.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d337bcfb80993ad0c8f4450d67a64034d63a3ca3a34b3732b591df25a88171e/still-6.png" data-mid="168034667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d337bcfb80993ad0c8f4450d67a64034d63a3ca3a34b3732b591df25a88171e/still-6.png" /><img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/404cda49c438cc444223c5f8bbb07ed3bcb7c260f8075161934025e077229ff3/Investigation-Map.jpg" data-mid="168030827" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/404cda49c438cc444223c5f8bbb07ed3bcb7c260f8075161934025e077229ff3/Investigation-Map.jpg" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e8e82b2b951fee11e93920b0e98bd645eeea990e2b09ab41eec3de3f778970f/Philips.png" data-mid="127108740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e8e82b2b951fee11e93920b0e98bd645eeea990e2b09ab41eec3de3f778970f/Philips.png" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b7be68d77df71c93191b4d0e6fafe018ad854bcaa15adb8e478e5f060742fca1/CII-Honeywell-Bull.png" data-mid="127108741" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b7be68d77df71c93191b4d0e6fafe018ad854bcaa15adb8e478e5f060742fca1/CII-Honeywell-Bull.png" />Stills of&nbsp;Machines in Flames (2022) provided by The Destructionist International. High-resolution stills can be downloaded from here. https://machinesinflames.com/4-Screenings-and-Press Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:27:28 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/4-Screenings-and-Press Machines in Flames sparked a resurgence of interest in its protagonist, CLODO: the mysterious collective bombing computer companies in early 1980s France. Enabling this resurgence was the film’s wide distribution, appearance in magazines, and selection in film festivals. Reviews&nbsp;︎ “ Part desktop documentary, part evocative experimental film, this philosophical video essay succeeds in enacting the ‘detective logic of the digital’ like few other works I have seen. ” - BFI Sight and Sound, Best Video Essays of 2023. “a highly unorthodox film that consciously displays its internal wiring throughout” - Tribune Magazine “Culp and Dekeyser use unconventional techniques – such as allowing part of the narrative to unfold on a Macbook screenshare – that remain true to the anarchic spirit of the group.” - Huck Magazine“Aesthetically it is such a poetic slow wandering among zoom interfaces, archival images and slow video shots of the streets of Toulouse, and the narrator voice is incredibly soothing, while taking you in on so many social and political aspects.” - curator, Fotomuseum Winterhur “combines traces of archives, stories of companies targeted by the CLODO to think about the self-destruction of machines and cybernetics.” - lundi matin Screenings&nbsp;︎ Machines in Flames has been shown in 70+ venues, including museums, political venues, hacker festivals, squats, and universities. These include: The Photographers’ Gallery / Fotomuseum Winterthur CalArts Expo 2022CineMovil Mayday Rooms Sorbonne University University of Amsterdam PRATT Techno-Police FestivalUniversité Paris 8BDP-HausGerrit Rietveld AcademieNew Centre for Research &amp; Practice La Généralearchitekturforum oberösterreichBrighton University Film Festivals&nbsp;︎ Selection, Bergamo Film Meeting International Film Festival 2023. (Italian Premiere)Selection, WRO Biennale 2023. (Polish Premiere)Selection, Breaking the Frame: Cambridge Film Festival. Interviews (selection) ︎“Machines in Flames: Documentary proves mystery of French IT workers who bombed tech firms - then vanished”, the i. “The Anti-Tech Militants Militants Who Never Got Caught”, Popular Front Podcast.“Machines in Flames”, Theorizing the Web.“Smash the Computers”, Tribune Magazine / Jacobin Latin America. “The French anarchists who took on sinister tech giants”, Huck Magazine. https://machinesinflames.com/5-CLODO Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:37:31 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/5-CLODO <img width="1240" height="1753" width_o="1240" height_o="1753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3220f024e3c9dc7dc52ba0ebc66549f3a7cbf53acebc57f7e7ad68a55fffe639/Ter_n16_article1_p3-5.jpg" data-mid="127109453" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3220f024e3c9dc7dc52ba0ebc66549f3a7cbf53acebc57f7e7ad68a55fffe639/Ter_n16_article1_p3-5.jpg" /> <img width="1240" height="1753" width_o="1240" height_o="1753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/494eeaaed2223c31ca1e4bc2bd5ae4a8db318add00033e06dd66443f3b3ba22c/Ter_n16_article1_p4.jpg" data-mid="127109454" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/494eeaaed2223c31ca1e4bc2bd5ae4a8db318add00033e06dd66443f3b3ba22c/Ter_n16_article1_p4.jpg" /> <img width="1240" height="1753" width_o="1240" height_o="1753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aa74a970a88a1e0d6709decac5e8a504304f17013b07651f16379f59f90a93b5/Ter_n16_article1_p5.jpg" data-mid="127109455" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aa74a970a88a1e0d6709decac5e8a504304f17013b07651f16379f59f90a93b5/Ter_n16_article1_p5.jpg" /> A translation of this ‘self-interview’ here. <img width="1116" height="1504" width_o="1116" height_o="1504" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00ca7f15da7c1d0708dac5cee3c84134dba1eed01a207b67ab01a1d0b904bb8f/1980-philips-communique.jpg" data-mid="127140143" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00ca7f15da7c1d0708dac5cee3c84134dba1eed01a207b67ab01a1d0b904bb8f/1980-philips-communique.jpg" /> A translation of this communiqué here. <img width="2915" height="1907" width_o="2915" height_o="1907" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e4003c23128e187c6c628bbf9cee7f0ff6d68e6a736d9f2735571e5f2f5ab9a/1983-Centre-Informatique-de-Colomiers-9.jpg" data-mid="127140144" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e4003c23128e187c6c628bbf9cee7f0ff6d68e6a736d9f2735571e5f2f5ab9a/1983-Centre-Informatique-de-Colomiers-9.jpg" /> A translation of this communiqué here.<img width="957" height="709" width_o="957" height_o="709" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eaa6d230851d6e88fa81a52f05be04b82f6d84966bbb3817b84fd6ae86c173c7/Screenshot-2022-04-02-at-19.37.33.png" data-mid="138398744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/957/i/eaa6d230851d6e88fa81a52f05be04b82f6d84966bbb3817b84fd6ae86c173c7/Screenshot-2022-04-02-at-19.37.33.png" /> <img width="945" height="685" width_o="945" height_o="685" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c51420338277f45c6ed832f5e245a3d7a2a384edb633d31f6bb7b9204dc2cef9/Screenshot-2022-04-02-at-19.37.48.png" data-mid="138398745" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/945/i/c51420338277f45c6ed832f5e245a3d7a2a384edb633d31f6bb7b9204dc2cef9/Screenshot-2022-04-02-at-19.37.48.png" /> <img width="894" height="708" width_o="894" height_o="708" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d7b24dda6aa6208bffa9aa1b05b75bdc059224d35d974fecf11213d88d5fe25/Screenshot-2022-04-02-at-19.37.57.png" data-mid="138398746" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/894/i/7d7b24dda6aa6208bffa9aa1b05b75bdc059224d35d974fecf11213d88d5fe25/Screenshot-2022-04-02-at-19.37.57.png" /> <img width="559" height="753" width_o="559" height_o="753" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b7270dd50fffdbe8bc621a03c572566972465f3e142e20d26d663006f112ecd/Screenshot-2022-04-02-at-19.38.59.png" data-mid="138398747" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/559/i/0b7270dd50fffdbe8bc621a03c572566972465f3e142e20d26d663006f112ecd/Screenshot-2022-04-02-at-19.38.59.png" /> https://machinesinflames.com/6-Contact Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:52:30 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/6-Contact ︎ Please contact us at aculp@calarts.edu and T.D.C.Dekeyser@soton.ac.uk to arrange screenings, for a press pack, or for any other information.&nbsp; ︎ Updates via @Destruct_Intl on Twitter. &nbsp; https://machinesinflames.com/7-Stream Sat, 22 Apr 2023 11:10:52 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/7-Stream https://machinesinflames.com/About Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:37:31 +0000 Machines in Flames https://machinesinflames.com/About Intergrams Archive &nbsp; Two film makers find a secret history of destruction by following the footsteps of a clandestine group of 1980s French computer workers.