e-flux presents True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films
The Falling Sky
Peggy Ahwesh
2017
10 Minutes
Date
February 9–22, 2021
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of Peggy Ahwesh’s The Falling Sky (2017), on view from Tuesday, February 9 through Monday, February 22, 2021.
Repurposing footage lifted from an animated news outlet on YouTube, The Falling Sky is a cautionary tale about human foibles increasingly out of alignment with the forces of nature. The video offers a poetic tour through our dense cultural landscape, driven by the gods of the tumultuous sky. The daily bombardment of fragmentary information, discoveries, crises, gossip, and opinions forces itself upon us, we who are doomed to be “connected” through technology, in a slow drain of our subjectivity. The simple, hypnotic news animations of news from the Youtube database encapsulate our collective prurient interests, fears, and obsessions.
The Falling Sky is presented here as one of five films in Part One | Simulations and (Hyper)Reality, the first of five programs in the online film and video series True Fake: Troubling the Real in Artists’ Films programmed by Lukas Brasiskis for e-flux Video & Film.
True Fake runs from February 9 through April 20, 2021. The films in each part will screen for two weeks. Subsequent parts will follow bi-weekly, with new films screened every other Tuesday.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com.