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Machines In Flames
2022 · Film · documentary · 50 min
Directed by Andrew Culp, Thomas Dekeyser
Two researchers find a secret history of self-destruction by following the footsteps of a clandestine group of French computer workers from the 1980s. The workers - who operated under the elusive name 'CLODO' - bombed computer companies in Toulouse, France, but were never found. Journeying through the cybernetic nodes of military, industrial, and socialist development, the film exposes how recording devices fail to collect the ashes of history. The film combines archival traces, a viral desktop choreography, and paranoid footage of nocturnal stakeouts into a philosophical investigation of self-combustion. The film is the debut work of the Destructionist International, and the first in a series of films on the appetite for abolition in ultra-leftism. It was first distributed through a network of self-erasing USB data sticks dropped outside corporate campuses.
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Could this be more CLODO attacks?
"Machines in Flames is an experimental documentary that details the journey Thomas and Andrew underwent in the search for the group CLODO (Committee for Liquidation and Subversion of Computers). CLODO were/are an elusive group who were invested in attacking and burning down computer centres in France in the early 1980s. After a series of attacks in Toulouse, they disappeared and were never discovered."
https://machinesinflames.com/ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/le-clodo-clodo-speaks?v=1642397481 https://landscapesurgery.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/machines-in-flames/