简介:A soliloquy by Robert de Niro. The same image as always, the words in seven languages. Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki appropriate a famous fragment from the film “Taxi Driver”, by Martin Scorsese (1976) to rethink the language of cinema in an exhibition context.
简介:K.D.D.: Why make war films? As a character in "Between Two Wars" suggests: 'I tried to learn a lesson for the living from the lives of the dying.' In "Before your Eyes – Vietnam", a voice-over talks about war as basically an experiment …
简介:They gave me another chance; I filmed the people who paint cinema posters painting, and the results were meant to provide inserts for a magazine program entitled "Kino 75" …
简介:A "film-noir" on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee …
简介:A contribution to a series examining the methods television presenters use to link from one item to the next and thus to prove the evidence of the previous item, the following item, all the items, themselves etc. …
简介:Some of Filmkritik's authors comment on Bressons "L'Argent". Script and commentary by Hartmut Bitomsky, Manfred Blank, Jürgen Ebert, Harun Farocki, Gaby Körner, Barbara Schlungbaum and Melanie Walz.
简介:In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins. The destruction was so great that the prewar years became a distant memory. Belief in a better future soon became easy and enjoyable, however …
简介:What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as the predominant medium of visual world-making? Harun Farocki’s four-part Parallel I–IV (2012–14) takes up this question tracing how video games have developed from two-dimensional schematics to photorealistic environments.