Harun Farocki Libri

This publication attempts to map the visual approach of one of Germany's foremost documentary filmmakers, Harun Farocki (born 1944). Unlike other, more theoretical publications on his work, Diagrams looks at still images to trace specific movements and patterns in ten Farocki films.

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumière brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki’s students were tasked with honouring the original Lumière film’s basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.

Das Register von Gerti Fietzek bietet eine umfassende Erschließung von Harun Farockis Textproduktion und reflektiert seine Faszination für Wörterbücher und Bildsammlungen. Neben dem Register werden zusätzlich 30 bisher unveröffentlichte Texte präsentiert, darunter Kurztexte zu Farockis Filmen und Filmkritiken aus den Jahren 1980 und 1981. Ein Nachwort von Volker Pantenburg rundet den Band ab und vertieft das Verständnis von Farockis Werk.

"Compiles artistic and analytical practices that expand thought on cinema ... thematizes archetypes and recurring patterns in film history ... with contributions from cultural history, philosophy, and film theory"--Blurb.