Harun Farocki : working on the sight-lines / edited by Thomas Elsaesser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-2019, editor.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Farocki, Harun.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2021).

Includes filmograpy: p. [325]-361.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

9786610958979

9781280958977

1280958979

9789048505265

9048505267

9781417520541

141752054X

OCLC:

437106990