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Central
Control
Written
and Directed by Pete Gomes
DVcam
and Super 8
Running
time : 5mins
N51° 29. 721'
W000° 06. 031'
This film is an exploration of the ideas on Geo Cinema and location and cinema.
People suffering from delusional behaviour in South London have referred to the large
silver box structure sited on Elephant and Castle roundabout,
as being a focal point for them, believing that it works as a
control centre delivering them messages.
The
film Central Control examines the location, as a man begins to explain how and where
he first started to hear the voices in his head, whenever he was near the building.
This is a phenomenon which is explored in this text by Victor Tausk on The Influencing Machine
"The schizophrenic influencing machine is a machine of mystical nature. The patients are able to give only vague hints of its construction. It consists of boxes, cranks, levers, wheels, buttons, wires, batteries, and the like. Patients endeavor to discover the construction of the apparatus by means of their technical lnowledge, and it appears that with the progressive popularization of the sciences, all the forces known to technology are utilized to explain the functioning of the apparatus."
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