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

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	56mn 4s
Size: 	907 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	696x570 ~> 760x570
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 769 Kbps
BPP: 	0.178
Audio
#1:  	German 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 Kbps (Stereo)
#2:  	English 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 Kbps (Stereo)

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

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

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