In Free Fall

In the course of the cascading images of In Free Fall, the filmmaker herself appears; reading her text about the changeability of technical things. While speaking, she makes an error. Instead of saying that things continue to live, she says that they continue to love. The montage grasps this slip of the tongue (also a free fall), and turns it into a glitch. Reiteration of the error, which is celebrated like a hip hop sample, becomes just as programmatic as its content, considering polymorphous life and love as one – with devotion and unpredictable attraction.
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Orig. Title
In Free Fall
Year
2010
Country
Germany
Duration
32 min
Director
Hito Steyerl
Category
Essay, Short film
Orig. Language
English, German
Subtitles
English
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