VIDEO: ZKM'S VIDEO PORTRAIT OF TOTAL REFUSAL (2021)
In addition to the ARTE.TV's recent interview with Total Refusal, here's another brilliant portrayal of the gang from ZDK, in English. (Ok, it's The Division, not The Devision, but so what?)
The artist, researcher and filmmakers collective and pseudo-marxist media guerrilla Total Refusal (Susanna Flock, Adrian Haim, Jona Kleinlein, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf) intervenes in current video games and writes papers about games and politics. Since 2018 it has been awarded with 27 prizes (and 11 honorary mentions) like the Diagonale Film Award for the Best Short Doc, the Contemporary Visual Arts Award of Styria Province and Vimeo Staff Pick Award among others. Total Refusal's films have been presented at more than 130 film and video festivals, including Berlinale (2020), Doc Fortnight at MOMA New York and IDFA Amsterdam (2018) and they been exhibited at various exhibition spaces like the Architecture Biennial Venice 2021, the HEK Basel (2020) and the Ars Electronica Linz (2019).
Don't miss the upcoming Screen Walk with Total Refusal (Spet 22 2021, online).