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Clip description
This clip covers the end of the 20th Century, where we learn that East Timor voted and Indigenous Australians wanted their land back. ‘When Iraq wanted oil-producing Kuwait back again, car-driving America drew the line’. Computers are cost-efficient but 'human stupid’. Finally, because of globalisation, everything is efficient and interconnected. 'The only problem is, we seem to have accidentally locked ourselves out of it.’
Curator’s notes
Bruce Petty is telling us that in the rush to connect and control the globe we seem to have lost the plot and forgotten that humans, who actually inhabit the world, are made of much more than pixels. Digital technology, the war in Iraq and globalisation – all in our collective living memory – can now be pondered in the light of this film.
The final image, of a man desperately trying to embrace and hang on to the sphere that is our world, suggests that man has locked himself (and his humanity) out of the very world he helped to create.
