Harun Farocki
(B.1944, Nový Jicin (Neutitschein), Czechoslovakia // D.Berlin, 2014)- Parallel I-IV, 2014
- War Tropes, 2011
- Serious Games, 2010
- The Silver and the Cross, 2010
- Transmission, 2007
- Deep Play, 2007
- Vergleich über ein Drittes / Comparison via a Third, 2007
- Synchronisation / Dubbing, 2006
- 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
- Ausweg / A way, 2005
- Aufstellung / In Formation, 2005
- Gegen-Musik / Counter-Music, 2005
- Drei Montagen / Three Assembles, 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
- 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
War Tropes, 2011
5 videos (5 channel), 35 mins. Video installation.
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Channel 1: "War Tropes 1: Attention" Video, 5'33''
Channel 2: "War Tropes 2: Where is Elbe 14?" Video, 8'02''
Channel 3: "War Tropes 3: Souvenir" Video, 5'13''
Channel 4: "War Tropes 4: Connection" Video,10'04''
Channel 5: "War Tropes 5: Looking and Gazing" Video, 6'35''
War tropes is a 5-part video installation; each video is made of various clips from war-themed movies. Farocki shows the vision that cinema has offered to spectators about military training camps, where soldiers suffer living with mud and weapons and are trained to obey unquestionable commands. He does this through a paternalistic perspective that encourages the viewer to feel proud of these soldiers and a country that seeks peace.
Video still: Screen 1: "War Tropes 1: Attention"
Video still: Screen 2: " War Tropes 2: Where is Elbe 14?"
Video still Screen 3: "War Tropes 3: Souvenir"
Video still: Screen 4: "War Tropes 4: Connection"
Video still Screen 5: "War Tropes 5: Looking and Gazing"
Installation view at Screen Festival, Loop Barcelona, 2012."War Tropes", 2011.
Installation view at Screen Festival, Loop Barcelona, 2012."War Tropes", 2011.