Deus ex Machina
Technical details
Original title Deus ex Machina
Author Evaristo Benítez
Edition 6 limited edition HD (+2H.C.)
Production ob-art produccions, SL
Running time 00:01:44
Country Spain
Year of producction 2011
Providential intervention and therefore outside the logical intern of the plot.
It is a narrative resource that only in the narration (in the plot) has sense.
If we used it in a nonnarrative context, (what is video art) God is unnecessary inasmuch as it does not have to save the plot.
Then the machina is freed of its servitude, operates in without serving to master some, released the emptiness, flies with its own wings, becomes God.
But it is a deceit. the machine always is machine and its metal jail never will let to him escape.
*Latin Expresión (God arisen from the machine) that expresses the appearance of a subterfuge (something other people's to the plot and its internal coherence) to save a situation it jeopardize.