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Sassi Pekka
The work is based on a dialogue from Stanley Milgram's book 'Obedience to Authority'. The book describes a psychological test on the people resigning themselves to authority. The testee is told to give electric shocks to another person.
Production Year
2001
Duration
00:08:30
Tyyppi
Asiasana
authority, cardiac arrest, control, death, dialogue, electric injuries, empathy, experimental films, fear (emotions), human rights, obedience, oppression, pain, persuasion, psychological tests, psychology, scientific research, test subjects (persons), torture, violence (activity)
Original Title
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English Title
Correct
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Pekka Sassi (Author), Pekka Sassi (Director)
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Pekka Sassi
Born: 1969
Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) is a Helsinki-based artist whose output consists of experimental sound and video works, many of which are purely sound pieces and audio installations. Sassi’s works are characterised by creative integration of simple, and sometimes random, audial and visual worlds detected in the surrounding world. He is a wide-ranging, yet uncompromising artist. His works have been presented at several domestic and foreign festivals and he was awarded the annual AVEK Prize for audio-visual art in 2006 and the Best film in European Media Art Festival, Osnabrücke 2010.
67 works