An ever-hardening stream of images coming out of America has, in recent months, taken hold of our screens and our minds, sealing the media omnipotence of Donald Trump – “a man well-versed in ballyhoo,” as J. Hoberman once put it. Faced with this coordinated assault – from television networks to social media threads, and even the cinema – a viable response feels more distant than ever. What can images still do in an era marked by the steady erosion of the public sphere? What follows is a survey of several already-iconic sequences from recent months, rounded off with a brief historical step back.

Victor Morozov

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Film critic and journalist; writes regularly for Dilema Veche and Scena9. He studied film theory in Grenoble, Paris, Dublin.

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