Installationview Platform Garanti

Casi Quasi Cinema
2006, Slide projection, foam, table and wooden trestles

In August 27, 2003 the US Directorate for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict at
The Pentagon offered a screening of the film The Battle of Alger, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo in 1966.
Regarding it as a useful illustration of the problems faced in Iraq. A flyer for the screening read:
How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range.
Women plant bombs in cafes. Soon the entire Arab population builds to a mad fervor. Sound familiar?
The French have a plan. It succeeds tactically, but fails strategically. To understand why, come to a
rare showing of this film.
Which is the text projected in the model, which also include benches and the cinema screen, as if would
have been a model of a cinema where they potentially could have screened the film.