Films: 01. Optical Vacuum, 2008, 55 min. 02. Elements, 2005, 8 min. 03. Luukkaankangas - Updated, Revisited, 2004, 8 min. Bonus 01. Ortem, 2004, 20 min. Bonus 02. Interstate, 2006, 10 min. Quote: Nowhere else is talk of the »panoptic era« an eye that sees everything yet remains elusive clearer than in the medium that has taken omnipresence and fleetingness to a global scale: the Internet. On the Internet, the paradigm known thus far for our imaging apparatus has become invalid: there is no longer a single, central perspective, but instead, a myriad of viewing angles that broadcast over webcams, pumping incessant images into the digital data stream. The »vacuum« in the title of Dariusz Kowalski´s cinematic essay, which follows his earlier works Elements and Luukkaankangas, is therefore not a void, but a powerful generator, an unremitting doubling of the world: in image.(Dietmar Kammerer)