In one of his earliest student works, Farocki attempts to parody the Berlin beer brand Kindl through critical analysis of their advertising strategy. Posters for the Kindl brewery in the stands of Berlin’s sports arena show beer drinkers through the ages, from an organ grinder at the turn of the 20th century to a fashionable ‘Beatle wannabe’.
Also in this combined programme
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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 itself.
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The White Elephant
Using found web fragments and images of young Tsahal soldiers enjoying trance music, a Palestinian teenager searches for her identity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 1966
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 4"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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