Wikiland, 2007-07-12-00:59:46 (2014)
After Wikiland (2011) the project has evolved into an inquiry into the entertainment industry. The focus has shifted to the so-called gun-camera video from July 12, 2007, which was leaked by American soldier Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning), showing civilians and Reuters photographers being gunned down by the US military from an Apache helicopter in Baghdad; this video came to be known as “Collateral Murder”. The video was published by WikiLeaks on April 5, 2010. “Collateral Murder” was once again seen in 2013, but this time in the Touchstone/Disney feature film titled The Fifth Estate. An hour into the film, Källström-Fäldt pressed ‘pause’, taking a photograph of a stained computer screen showing an image of actor Benedict Cumberbatch playing Assange. At the core of the project is a desire to highlight the film industry’s capacity to render harmless the documentation of war crimes which had shocked the world when they were revealed a mere three years earlier.
Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt, 2014
Book made together with 1:2:3 (Axel von Friesen and Petter Törnqvist), B-B-B-Books, 2014