Short Program 3: Congo Forward

'Core Dump: Dakar' - Watch Here

Director: Francois Knoetze

Experimental, 2018, 12 Min.

Time: October 16th - 31st

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In a TV repair shop, electronic waste is fused with the shop-owner’s body to form a cyborg that can re-embody historical data and hack online systems in pursuit of a utopian future. The film culminates at the Centre International du Commerce Extérieur with a re-enactment of a speech delivered by Leopold Sédar Senghor at the 1975 Non-Aligned Movement Conference.

A “core dump” is the recorded state of the working memory of a computer at a specific moment in time. If a crash occurs, the computer is able to recall this ‘imprint’ of its previous state as a means to debug and recover. This oddly poetic ‘memory’ of a computer forms the basis for Francois Knoetze’s CORE DUMP, a four-part sculptural and video series filmed in Dakar, Kinshasa, Shenzhen and New York that extends the metaphor of a crash to the impending breakdown and unsustainability of the global capitalist techno-scientific system.