Harun Farocki - Philosopher of Images Documentary Film Series

January 14th, 2008

Film
18.01 - 02.02.2008
Max Mueller Bhavan
German with English subtitel
Entry free
The works of Harun Farocki, German filmmaker, media theorist and artist include visual essays that critically analyse war, science, technology and mass culture. Farocki’s work escapes classification and can be inscribed into several categories at once: feature films, documentary, essay film and the avant-garde. They are compelling not only to film makers, but also to video and multi-media installation artists who simultaneously seek to engage with theory and politics.

Farocki simultaneously uses the camera to excavate enlightenment from the very foundation of science, technology and industrialisation. The politics of enlightenment penetrates into science, technology, war and other related aspects such as colonisation, imperialism etc; an insistent critique of it as the foundation of existing systems is reiterated throughout his work. Most certainly his work is very relevant for literary and film theorists and cultural critics.

His extraordinary insistence on demonstrating modernity is remarkable and especially so when one thinks postmodernism is the overriding factor for discussing current situations. The films are predominantly didactic, modernist and as such not overtly political. The modernist form and style enables a cognitive stimulation that haunts the audience leaving them involuntarily probing his works further by default.

Film 18-Jan-2008 6.30 p.m.	Inextinguishable Fire and As We Can See Here Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series	Max Mueller Bhavan
Film 19-Jan-2008 6.00 p.m.	Prison Pictures and Nothing Ventured Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series	Max Mueller Bhavan
Film 31-Jan-2008 6.30 p.m.	Videogram of a Revolution Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series	Max Mueller Bhavan
Film 01-Feb-2008 6.30 p.m.	War at a Distance Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series	Max Mueller Bhavan
Film 02-Feb-2008 3.00 p.m.	Pictures of the World, Still Life and Workers Harun Farocki Documentary Film Series	Max Mueller Bh

Harun Farocki will be present on February 1 and 2 to present and discuss his films.

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