Jorge Luis Marzo - The Art of the Prank

Author: Jorge Luis Marzo

Jorge Luis Marzo (Barcelona, Spain). Art Historian and Curator, writer and professor. Last projects: Mobile Culture (LABoral, 2010); The Baroque D_efect (CCCB, 2010); Low-Cost (FAD, 2009); Political Ads. The Spectacle of Democracy (Palau de la Virreina, 2008). Recent Publications: Political Ads. The Spectacle of Democracy (Turner, 2008); Modern Art and Franquism. Conservative Origins of Avantgarde and Art Politics in Spain (FundaciÃ³n Espais, 2008); Photography and Social Acitivism (Gustavo Gili, 2006); Me, Mycell and I. Technology, Mobility and Social Life (FundaciÃ³ TÃ pies, 2003). Professor at Elisava/University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Mind Control with Derren Brown
by Jorge Luis Marzo:

Derren Brown, British illusionist, invited two advertising executives from Saatchi & Saatchi to participate in an experiment. The outcome is mindboggling: To what extent am I exercising free will when I make things up?

Watch this video clip from the SciFi Network on YouTube.

Espaà±ol
Recientemente, el psicà³logo educativo brità¡nico Stuart Nolan presentaba, en el marco de un simposio sobre ilusionismo y percepcià³n en el MediaLab de Madrid, un caso verdaderamente sorprendente que hizo a todos los presentes preguntarse sobre la libertad de los actos que creemos “objetivamente nuestros”. Continue reading “Mind Control with Derren Brown [English & Spanish]”

Hoax Film Made by Nazis
by Jorge Luis Marzo:

These three clips are part of an SS film shot at Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in Prague, in 1944. Entitled “The Fuhrer gives a city to the Jews,” it was a hoax film made by Nazis intended to demonstrate that widespread news about the extermination of Jews in the East was false. The most unbelievable thing is that, in order to create a credible plot, the entire film was directed by Jewish filmmaker Kurt Gerron, himself a prisoner, and shot and performed by the very inmates, under the threat of being sent to Auschwitz. The camp was painted, remodelled and inmates received extra rations of food, etc..

The Fuhrer gives a city to the Jews, Part 1

A copy of the film was sent to the Red Cross in Geneve (Switzerland). A few days later, the whole camp’s population was sent to Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chambers.

I got this footage from the Jewish International Council in NYC. The film has been used by some negationist pro-Nazi groups to deny the Holocaust. So, for any use of these film clips, it is very important to explain the full context.

For Film Parts 2 and 3 Continue reading “Hoax Film Made by Nazis”