Starting from found thermal camera recordings the filmmaker and artist Stefan Kruse (b. 1987)
made his experimental essayistic documentary film A Lack of Clarity (2020). This book titled
after the film transposes Kruse's dream-like documentary from screen to page. The resequencing
of film stills and subtitles presents an alternate view into the social control mechanisms and
evolving digital technologies that face an expanding field of what is visible (and
controllable) in the contemporary city. A Lack of Clarity designed and edited in close
collaboration with Kruse includes 200+ stills from the film as well as essays by Volker
Pantenburg and Rémi Lauvin.
