[2005] „Paranoid“ from cold war conspiracy theory Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 4 min 49 sec
✓ Published: 26-Jun-2010

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Power, Panopticism and Paranoia in Beigennn„Paranoid“ [2005] is a Lynchian look at surveillance culture. Set in a cheap hotel room, the video loop plays with ambiguities of space, gaze and power, distorting and inverting relationships between eye, camera, lens and window while highlighting the ambivalent position of hotel rooms and hotel culture in society.nnDefined by Foucault as heterotopic, a space outside ‘place’, a non-place outside time, hotel rooms are public: anyone can enter and