Harun Farocki
Working the Sight-lines
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
379 pages
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32 halftones
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6-1/3 x 9-5/11
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© 2004
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
Introduction
Image In(ter)ventions
Filming as Writing, Writing as Filming, Staking One's Life
Between Wars, Between Images
Documenting the Life of Ideas? - Farocki and the 'Essay Film'
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Film: Media: Work: Archive
From the Surveillance Society to the Control Society
Acknowledgement
Farocki: A Filmography
Notes on Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Film Titles/Subjects
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