Five decades of Harun Farocki’s film and video material are transformed into an audiovisual vocabulary, teaching key Farockian concepts from A to Z. This video essay takes inspiration from Farocki’s lifelong fascination with the teaching functions of film and media. Commissioned by the Goethe-Institut, a leading German-language educator in the world.
Also in this combined programme
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Jeder ein Berliner Kindl
A short parody on advertising Farocki made as a film student, before he was expelled from the Deutsche Film und Fernsehenakademie Berlin (DFFB). -
Harun Farocki: The Counter-Image
This desktop investigation asks: how can one begin to learn about Farocki? A naive search for his name online is already revealing. -
The White Elephant
Using found web fragments and images of young Tsahal soldiers enjoying trance music, a Palestinian teenager searches for her identity. -
Harun Farocki: Presented
Harun Farocki appears in 24 of his own films. His time on screen totals 2 hours and 21 minutes, enough to form a movie in… -
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Point of departure is an unfinished script for a never-realised play, written by Bertolt Brecht during his exile in Stockholm 1939-40.
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 13'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
