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Harun Farocki was born in Novi Jicín in 1944 in what is today the Czech Republic. He studied at the German Cinematic and Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin, from which he was expelled in 1968 for political reasons. In addition to writing theoretical texts, he has scripted numerous films and television productions. His work has been shown in international retrospectives and has received many awards.

Farocki’s early films are marked by ideas of a cultural revolution as formulated by the increasingly radical Left of the time and are explicitly developed as effective means of political propaganda. In this way, “Inextinguishable Fire” (1968/69) seizes upon the Vietnam War as one of the quintessential themes of the student movement. While his politically-motivated educational films subject the audience to an analytical and consciousness-raising agenda, the subsequent auctorial, essayistic, and documentary films call for a more active reception on behalf of the audience itself. Thus the documentaries consciously refrain from any interpretation of the events portrayed, while presenting quotidian life in a clearly visible form that reveals its hidden capitalistic logic. Parallel to this, cinematic essays arise, which question the very use of film as a pictorial medium. Through both montage and a deliberate composition of either intentionally filmed or found materials, Farocki produces a subtext, which opens up the technical, socio-political, and cultural contexts of meaning in the production, distribution, and reception of images. In works such as “Videograms of a Revolution” (1992), assembled entirely from found footage, Farocki manages to set up a completely new narrative order. In these works he thematizes the interactions of historic processes and their representation in the media. Since the end of the 1990s, Farocki has been increasingly involved in creating video works within an exhibition context, e. g., at the Documenta X, 1997. His latest installations are concerned with the instrumentalization of the camera as a tool of supervision and control: “I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts” (2001 produced by the Generali Foundation) makes visually apparent the transition from a disciplinarian society to one of social control with the use of video footage from a surveillance camera. Similarly, “Eye/Machine I” (2002) shows just how far the use of images for technical supervisory purposes in both the military and civilian sectors has already progressed. (Luisa Ziaja)

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

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This is the content of the second disc of Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel, in which
Thomas Harlan revists his film and literary work.It is much more than an extra and more something like a second chapter to the first movie(here: link) which focuses more on Harlan’s life.

The two movies that are discussed are Torre Bela, which Harlan filmed during revolutionary uprisings in Portugal in the 70s and his (in)famous Wundkanal, an experiment which in an uncomfortable way explores the limits of art. Robert Kramer
made a movie about Wundkanal calld Notre Nazi.

Sadly the discussed movies were not part of the DVD but you get to see many outtakes.

1.42GB | 2s 15m | 592×448 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/7D39AB8CFB908EA/Wandersplitter_2__symptomal_readings_.avi
https://nitro.download/view/D58F46837920CF0/Wandersplitter_2__symptomal_readings_.idx
https://nitro.download/view/6235616BA6666CF/Wandersplitter_2__symptomal_readings_.sub

Language:German
Subtitles:English

The post Christoph Hübner – Thomas Harlan – Wandersplitter aka Moving Shrapnel [Extra] (2007) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Thomas Harlan, filmmaker, author and revolutionary was born in 1929 in Germany. His father was the infamous propaganda filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of Jew Suess. During his childhood, as a result of his father’s closeness to the Nazi Party, the little Thomas came face to face with Hitler and Goebbels. Now an old frail man, Harlan lives in a respiratory clinic in Berchtesgaden. It is in this clinic in South Germany that he, along with documentary filmmaker Christoph Hübner, examines fragments of his past.

After the Second World War Harlan moved to Berlin and then to France. He met with Gilles Deleuze and Klaus Kinski, wrote plays, poetry and prose, engaged in left wing discourses and in 1959 in Poland he began archival research into the National Socialist regime. This research led to the prosecution of more than 2,000 German war criminals. The pieces of Harlan’s life revealed to us in this fascinating documentary are, he says, like shrapnel: they enter the body violently and can cause long-term pain and aggravation.

“I came across Thomas Harlan for the first time in the course of a retrospective of his films at the Munich Film Museum. For a longer period of time, I had myself been working on the subject of ‘children and grand-children of the Nazi Period.’ I drove to Munich to meet Thomas Harlan and we decided to work on a film together.” (Christoph Hübner)

the second movie(here: link)

1.26GB | 1h 36mn | 640×464 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/C0292FC71D1AEE1/WANDERSPLITTER__symptomal_readings_.avi
https://nitro.download/view/ED364A4ACB391F4/WANDERSPLITTER__symptomal_readings_.idx
https://nitro.download/view/1C0A955F197A9A7/WANDERSPLITTER__symptomal_readings_.sub

Language(s):German
Subtitles:English sub idx

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