Harun Farocki
(B.1944, Nový Jicin (Neutitschein), Czechoslovakia // D.Berlin, 2014)- Parallel I-IV, 2014
- War Tropes, 2011
- The Silver and the Cross, 2010
- Serious Games, 2010
- Transmission, 2007
- Deep Play, 2007
- Vergleich über ein Drittes / Comparison via a Third, 2007
- Zur Bauweise des Films bei Griffith's Film / On Construction of Griffith's Films, 2006
- Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik in elf Jahrzehnten / Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, 2006
- Hörstationen / Listening Stations, 2006
- Synchronisation / Dubbing, 2006
- Aufstellung / In Formation, 2005
- Gegen-Musik / Counter-Music, 2005
- Drei Montagen / Three Assembles, 2005
- Ausweg / A way, 2005
- Serie: Auge / Machine, Eye / Machine III, 2003
- Serie: Auge / Machine, Eye / Machine II, 2001
- Serie: Auge / Machine, Eye / Machine I, 2000
- The Expression of Hands, 1997
- Workers Leaving the Factory, 1995
- Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet at Work on Franz Kafka's, 1983
- An Image, 1983
- Some problems of anti-authoritarian and anti-imperialist urban warfare in the case of West Berlin or: Their Newspapers, 1968
- The Words of the Chairman, 1967
- Two Paths / Zwei Wege, 1966
Two Paths / Zwei Wege, 1966
Video, 16 mm, Black and white.
3 min.
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Harun Farocki´s first film
This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. Zwei Wege is a description of a picture! Farocki shows us an image of an oil painting, a religious allegory showing the 'right' and the 'wrong' path for a Christian. The one path leads to heaven, the other to hell.
Farocki uses the camera in effect to dissect the picture; he shows close-ups of the paintings various motifs, which he underscores with rhymes. This method of breaking down an image with the camera reminds us of similar sequences in his essay films, Wie man sieht and Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges, both from the eighties.
(Tilman Baumgärtel)
