Synopsis:
With this film, Farocki has attempted to capture everyday life as it is seen on the street.

Der Geschmack des Lebens (1979).mkv

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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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Google translated description from the Harun Farocki’s site:
Harun Farocki’s film Something Becomes Visible does not want to explain why a war in such a distant country could for a moment spill over to the whole western world. It’s about distances, relationships between. Nor does he explain, he just reminds us that never before has a war been so massively covered. But it would be too much to say that the pictures helped determine its course. It shows the aftermath, the effects of the war. He combines a historical motif with a romantic one. Vietnam and a couple in love.

We see people in Berlin today who are marked by this war. The sadness is even greater than the disappointment. The times after the revolution are difficult. When you get back to business, when the pure fighters of yesterday lose their innocence. And not only that. The powerful losers knew how to take advantage of the victory of the others. The sympathizers admit defeat on their own ground: the Americans in their books portrayed the opponent much better than all sympathizers with their sympathy.

One side and the other have their say. Between the things, the people, the views, the places, something shows itself. But all distance does not change anything: Farocki’s film is a confession.
The film shows the traces that the Vietnam War left on those who fought against it here: The war stunned this generation.

And on top of that, their language is still marked to the core by the analytical fuss that was used ten years ago to announce that you were on the right side and had read the right authors. Despite all the assertions of the film that with the end of the war the fronts and the one-sided truths disappeared.

(Frieda Grafe, 1982)

	
Etwas wird sichtbar AKA Before Your Eyes (1982).Harun.Farocki.WEB-DL.1080p.x264.AAC-KG.mkv

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“In the summer of 1996, we filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university graduates, people who have been retained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts, and mid-level managers – all of them are supposed to learn how to market and sell themselves, a skill to which the term ‘self management’ is applied. The self is perhaps nothing more than a metaphysical hook from which to hand a social identity. It was Kafka who likened being accepted to a job to entering the Kingdom of Heaven; the paths leading to both are completely uncertain. Today one speaks of getting a job with the greatest obsequiousness, but without any grand expectations.” Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki - The Interview.avi

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https://nitro.download/view/948803252C2BD16/Harun_Farocki_-_The_Interview.avi

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According to Harun Farocki, today’s photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from everyday life – the “still life”. The filmmaker illustrates this intriguing hypothesis with three documentary sequences which show the photographers at work creating a contemporary “still life”: a cheese-board, beer glasses and an expensive watch.This remarkable film by Harun Farocki is a powerful essay and commentary on contemporary life. It compares the still-lifes of the Dutch painters with the still-lifes of today: Photographs for advertisements for cheese, beer and watches. Farocki’s film is about objects because, according to the director, “Gods and heroes are no longer imaginable.” Using behind-the-scenes glimpses of modern advertising offices, where employees toil at the proper placement of objects for maximum sales effect, Farocki presents a vision of our reality in which objects bear witness to their producers. In these objects is a new image of man. With English commentary.

Stilleben.1997.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/4A812A078E38B7B/Stilleben.1997.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Subtitles:English Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian (soft)

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Images of the World and Inscription in War is an essay whose central motif is the aerial photograph of the camp at Auschwitz taken on April 4, 1944 by an American reconnaissance plane. On this photo, analysts identified the surrounding factories but not the concentration and extermination camp. Dialectic montage and a distanced commentary compose this film which analyses the conditions under which an image becomes readable. The gap from “seeing” to “knowing”, interlacing the polysemy of words and photographs.

Images.of.the.World.and.the.Inscription.of.War.1989.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H264.mkv

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Language(s):English, German
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded for German dialogue)

The post Harun Farocki – Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges AKA Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The head of a Berlin advertising agency explains his proposed strategy to his potential client, a Danish optical company. The communication strategy that we ultimately came up with as a basis or any creative act or means of communication has three headings.

The first is ‘relevant, not arrogant’; the second, ‘varied, not uniform’; and the third is, ‘creative, not pushy’. These are essentially translations, strategic translations of your basic requirements and your analysis of the market, as well.

Harun Farocki - (1996) The Appearance.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/883F53B6351725E/Harun_Farocki_-_(1996)_The_Appearance.mkv

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