Société Générale Kerviel's lawyer called for his client to be acquitted. The ruling was announced on October 5, 2010, at 11 am. Jérôme Kerviel was found guilty of the three charges filed against him: breach of trust, fraudulent inputting of data into an IT system and forgery and use of forged documents. He was found to be solely responsible for the record loss suffered by Société Générale in early 2008, and was sentenced to five years in prison, with two of those years suspended, and ordered to pay damages of 4.9 billion euros to the Bank. Jérôme Kerviel immediately launched an appeal
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G is a 12-minute short film directed by Paul Sharits in 1968. It uses many of the strategies characteristic of the structural film movement, including a static frame, flicker effects, flash frames and continual audio and visual repetition. The audio track consists exclusively of the filmmaker uttering the word "destroy" over and over until the word begins to lose its meaning and creates the impression of different combinations of words being spoken. Unlike many clearly algorithmically-driven films of the structural film movement, "T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G" does not simply follow a sequence of mathematical transformation, but deploys combinations of audio and visual