Harun Farocki : : working on the sightlines / / edited by Thomas Elsaesser.

• Superior document: Film culture in transition
• TeilnehmendeR: Farocki, Harun.; Elsasser, T.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Film culture in transition.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (379 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

Filmmaker, film essayist, installation artist, writer: the Berlin artist Harun Farocki has devoted his life to the power of images. Over the thirty-plus years of his career, Farocki has explored not the images of life but rather the life of images that surrounds us in newspapers, cinema, books, television, and advertising. Harun Farocki examines, from different critical perspectives, his vast oeuvre, which includes three feature films, critical media pieces, children's television features, 'learning films' in the tradition of Brecht, and installation pieces. Interviews, a selection of Farocki's own writings, and an annotated filmography complete a valuable biography of this pioneering artist and his legendary career.

Table of Contents

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Harun Farocki: Filmmaker, Artist, Media Theorist / Elsaesser, Thomas -- Image In(ter)ventions -- Painting Pavements / Siebel, Volker -- Images And Thoughts, People And Things, Materials And Methods / Becker, Jörg -- Incisive Divides And Revolving Images: On The Installation Schnittstelle / Blümlinger, Christa -- Filming As Writing, Writing As Filming, Staking One's Life -- Passage Along The Shadow-Line: Feeling One'S Way Towards The Filmkritik-Style / Möller, Olaf -- The Green Of The Grass: Harun Farocki In Filmkritik / Knepperges, Rainer -- Staking One's Life: Images Of Holger Meins / Farocki, Harun -- Between Wars, Between Images -- Working At The Margins: Film As A Form Of Intelligence / Elsaesser, Thomas -- Dog From The Freeway / Farocki, Harun -- Political Filmmaking After Brecht: Harun Farocki, For Example / Elsaesser, Thomas -- Documenting The Life Of Ideas? - Farocki And The 'Essay Film -- The Road Not Taken: Films By Harun Farocki / Rosenbaum, Jonathan -- Slowly Forming A Thought While Working On Images / Blümlinger, Christa -- Making The World Superfluous: An Interview With Harun Farocki / Elsaesser, Thomas -- Images Of The World And The Inscription Of War -- Reality Would Have To Begin / Farocki, Harun -- Light Weapons / Keenan, Tom -- The Political Im/Perceptible: Farocki'S Images Of The World And The Inscription Of War / Alter, Nora -- Film: Media: Work: Archive -- Workers Leaving The Factory / Farocki, Harun -- On Media And Democratic Politics: Videograms Of A Revolution / Young, Benjamin -- Towards An Archive For Visual Concepts / Farocki, Harun / Ernst, Wolfgang -- From The Surveillance Society To The Control Society -- Controlling Observation / Farocki, Harun -- Nine Minutes In The Yard: A Conversation With Harun Farocki / Hüser, Rembert -- Harun Farocki: Critical Strategies / Blümlinger, Christa -- Acknowledgements -- Farocki: A Filmography -- Notes On Contributors -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Films / Subjects