Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

Since the 1991 Gulf War, the act of warfare and the act of reporting it have become hyper-technological affairs in which real and computer-generated images cannot be distinguished from each other. Using his own new, and archival, images, Farocki sketches the relationship between military strategy and industrial production and shows how war technology finds its way into our everyday life.

Walking a delicate line between narrative and documentary, Diary is an achingly beautiful examination of struggles and economic challenges presented by post-Soviet life.