Operation Atropos

Operation Atropos

Production country: 
us
Year: 
2006
Duration: 
59'
Edition: 
2007
Format: 
film/video

In July 2005, Coco Fusco took a course led by former US military interrogators designed for people in the private sector who want to learn their techniques for extracting information. She took a group of six women with her and filmed their workshop. The video is about the collective learning experience. The training involved an immersive simulation of being prisoners of war: they were ambushed, captured, stripped searched, thrown in the pen and subjected to several interrogations. Afterwards, in a classroom scenario, the tactics used against them were analysed and they were taught to do to others what had been done to them.

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