This desktop investigation asks: how can one begin to learn about Farocki? Starting with a naive search for his name online, this film scans over his body of work and asks how one should begin to watch it. By using different methods to make sense of Farocki’s images, a key concept emerges: the counter-image.
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: Lexicon
Five decades of Harun Farocki’s film and video material transformed into an audiovisual vocabulary, teaching key Farockian concepts from A to Z. -
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… -
Image Missing
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
- 11'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
