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Harun Farocki

    January 9, 1944 – July 30, 2014

    Harun Farocki was a seminal media theorist and filmmaker whose extensive body of work offers a critical examination of visual culture. His films delve into the complex interplay between images, technology, and society, exploring how our perceptions are shaped by media. Farocki's approach is characterized by a sharp, analytical style that prompts viewers to question the constructed nature of reality presented through various mediums. His intellectual contributions have significantly influenced discourse on media theory and visual literacy.

    Harun Farocki Retrospektive
    Über Ici et ailleurs
    Was getan werden soll
    Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss
    Speaking about Godard
    Flesh of My Flesh
    • 2018

      HaFI 008 presents an unpublished talk given by Harun Farocki in 1987 at the event “Films that Think in Images” at the Akademie der Künste, West Berlin. The typescript was found among Farocki’s papers after his death.“In 1970, the war in Vietnam had nearly been forgotten. The Palestinians were making themselves known. […] Perhaps Godard wanted to make a new base with his film […] when he began a film in 1970 that was supposed to be called Until Victory. The footage lay around for a few years.” Oscillating between surprising associations and following a formal pattern reminiscent of a semantic game of dominos, Farocki speaks about Jean-Luc Godard’s and Anne-Marie Miéville’s “Ici et ailleurs” (1974). How does politics interact with the logic of images and sounds, he asks, and what does technology contribute? “Godard wants to teach how to see; in industry and military labs, machines are currently learning to do so. Pattern recognition: out of a trillion satellite photos of the Soviet Union, a device reads any pattern that looks like a missile silo and shows these to the on-duty personnel.”Farocki’s talk, translated by Ted Fendt, can be read as a complement to his and Kaja Silverman’s book Speaking about Godard. It is dedicated to the memory of Elisabeth Büttner, who wrote about “Ici et ailleurs” early on and felt close to Harun Farocki’s work.

      Über Ici et ailleurs
    • 2017

      Das Booklet erscheint anlässlich der Ausstellung „Harun Farocki Retrospektive. Mit anderen Mitteln“, die vom 14. September 2017 bis 28. Januar 2018 im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein stattfand. Die Ausstellung vereint Farockis Arbeiten, die sich mit der Logik des Kinos auseinandersetzen, indem Filme zitiert und deren Bildsprachen analysiert werden. „Zur Bauweise des Films bei Griffith“ (2006) untersucht Montageprinzipien der frühen Filme von D. W. Griffith, während die 6-Kanal-Videoinstallation „Fressen oder Fliegen“ (2008) das Motiv des männlichen Selbstmörders im fiktionalen Film behandelt. „Tropen des Krieges“ (2011) versammelt zentrale Motive des Kriegsfilms, und „Synchronisation“ (2006) widmet sich den Effekten der Filmübersetzung. Farockis zentrale Methode der „weichen Montage“ wird in den mehrkanaligen Installationen sichtbar, die nicht isoliert, sondern vergleichend im Ausstellungsraum präsentiert werden. Neben der Analyse der Kinobilder steht das Motiv der Iteration im Vordergrund, veranschaulicht durch die Arbeit „Umgießen“ (2010), die automatisierte Arbeitsprozesse thematisiert. Diese Arbeit zitiert als einziges Werk der Ausstellung keine Filme, sondern versucht eine Fluxus-Performance von 1963 unter heutigen Bedingungen durch einen Roboter aufzuführen. Ergänzt wird die Ausstellung durch Dokumentationsmaterial und das Radio-Feature „So long good-bye“ (1978). Die Ausstellung ist Teil einer Serie, die die Bedeutung von Far

      Harun Farocki Retrospektive
    • 2009

      Through a wide-ranging discussion, that extends from Ovid and Leonardo da Vinci to Gerhard Richter, and from philosophy and literature to time-based art, Kaja Silverman shows that the master myth of Western subjectivity is the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, not that of Oedipus, and this Janus-faced myth has the capacity both to destroy and to save us.

      Flesh of My Flesh
    • 1998

      Probably the prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has received astonishingly little critical attention in the United States. This title conveys the sense that we are at the movies with Silverman and Farocki, and that we, as both student and participant, are the ultimate beneficiaries.

      Speaking about Godard