 God's Generals, 2008 What we can see here are extracts from historical documentations of American itinerant preachers and faith healers. These charismatic personalities, who filled complete halls and circus tents with people at once hopeless and expecting salvation, reveal themselves here in their gestures and actions as being curious to grotesque, as preachers, saviours and manipulators of hysterically devout masses. These self-declared "God's Generals" style themselves in the spectacle of mass events as direct agents of God, as the way to healing and redemption.  God's Generals, 2008documentary video material, found footage (color, sound) 15 min., loop Production ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2008
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