The Battle of Algiers, by Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin, consists of a continual recomposition of scenes from the seminal 1965 film reenactment by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo.

The Battle of Algiers, by Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin, consists of a continual recomposition of scenes from the seminal 1965 film reenactment by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo. The success of the actual battle for independence has been attributed to the nationalists organisation, a pyramidal structure of self-organised cells. Lafias work uses computation to re-present the logic of the nationalists tactics as depicted in Pontecorvo's film, by playing and sequencing clips along varied algorithmic trajectories, with prescribed instructions and rules.

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