Operation Atropos / produced and directed by Coco Fusco.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Fusco, Coco, filmmaker.

Art Institute of Chicago. Video Data Bank

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military interrogation.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Documentary films directed by women.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Video Data Bank, 2006.

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation.

Summary:

In Operation Atropos, Fusco explores a particular shift in the role of women in the era of global warfare. This video follows her and a group of women enrolled in a training workshop led by Team Delta, a group of retired U.S. military interrogators, and designed for people in the private sector who want to learn from them various techniques for extracting information. In a one-day immersion in a simulated reality, the women are introduced to interrogation from the point of view of the prisoner: the group is ambushed, captured and subjected to harsh treatment from ex-military personnel playing guards and hostile interrogators. The video shows how interrogators combine theatrical tricks with physical and mental stress to extract information from their prisoners.

Credits:

Director of photography, Kambui Olujimi ; editor, Trish Maud ; music, Hallucinator.

Notes:

Originally produced as motion picture in 2006.

This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

OCLC:

85824260