VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: ANEMIC CINEMA: RETROGARDE ROTORELIEFS

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ANEMIC CINEMA: RETROGARDE ROTORELIEFS

Reworking of the 1926 dadaist film Anémic Cinéma by Marcel Duchamp,

featuring original rotoreliefs alternating with quotes by the

art / music collective Laibach:

david K

Anemic Cinema (Retrogarde Rotoreliefs)

Electronic film with musical score 'NATO' taken from

the album LAIBACH: Occupied Europe NATO Tour 1994-95

5 minutes 56 seconds

2014

The film has been debuted on Laibach.org under the section Volkskunst.

The Volksempfänger ("people's receiver") was a radio receiver developed in 1933 to make radio technology affordable to the general public for propagandistic reasons. Despite the nature of the broadcasts the radio was intended to receive, the evil genius of the device was the efficient nature in which messages could be directly disseminated to the masses. The internet is the modern equivalent of the Volksempfänger - it costs little, it reaches millions of people, and one should be very, very critical of the rubbish emanating from it.