Farocki shows us an image of an oil painting, a religious allegory showing the 'right' and the 'wrong' path for a Christian. The one path leads to heaven, the other to hell. This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work.
Jeder ein Berliner Kindl deals with advertising for Berliner Kindl, a local beer. It is a matter of the act of self-refutation, an act which is, however, far more than an ironically positioned, merely aesthetic 'gesture' – it is evidently related to the manner in which one approaches politics, political speeches and political semiotics. […]
The joke is that it is precisely the ...
On a weekend in June 1983, in what was deemed a “country outing,” an impressive number of Berlin-based artists went to a small German village to give the local residents a taste of Berlin’s avant-garde art scene. Back in Berlin, the footage was manipulated to produce an “experimental examination.”
A very critical short about education systems and teacher. Illustrated with examples and text. Pay attention to this teaching form of film, with criticizes teacher.
Teachers through Change is a suite of four short portraits of teachers whose lives have been profoundly affected by historical events. Each laconic life story is told through a series of old photographs separated by...
This is a short 7-minute movie review by Harun Farocki made in 1985 for the German TV-series Filmtip. Over 300 short movie reviews have been produced for the series since 1978. You'll find more about Filmtip, the series history and methods here. Farocki's short review is about Mehdi Charef's Le thé au harem d'Archimède. The movie was shown in German cinemas in 1985/86.
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