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The Love AffairThe Computer and its User
A 45-minute multimedia event by Claus Strigel
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To ensure their survival in tomorrow's digital era, pre-school
children are being taught to master the double mouse-click. Six-year-olds
are initiating their grandparents into the mysteries of flight simulation.
Forsaking the couch, psychologists are now conducting their therapy sessions
on interactive software programmes. |
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As they surf through the fantastical world of Cyberspace, computer junkies
have discovered a new version of the classic tale of infidelity and jealousy:
A menage á trois involving man, the computer and woman, with the
computer starring in role of chief tempter. In almost no other environment
do sheer madness and level-headed banality lie so close together than in
the daily routine at the computer. Yet the reality is far removed from
the bleak horror scenarios and the euphoric visions of global networking
so often projected.
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"The Love Affair - The Computer and its User" is not a
film about computers. It is an event. A multimedia event, which for the
first time on television affords the computer the opportunity to reflect
upon study its "user". Indeed, in our film the computer studies its operator. Who is dependent
on whom? Our approach to this question is direct and innovative. A new
graphic user-interface was developed especially for the film, enabling
us to cascade down the pull-down menus, leap through electronic files and
prevent (almost) any crash. |
The innermost insights of an intimate relationship. Voyeuristic images
of the computer and its user.
A film about love, enslavement and despair.
DENKmal-Film