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Harun Farocki. Zehn, zwanzig, dreißig, vierzig. Fragment einer Autobiografie. Schriften. Band 1
Part of the edition Harun Farocki. Schriften. (edited by Marius Babias, Antje Ehmann, Tom Holert, Doreen Mende, Volker Pantenburg)
Harun Farocki (1944–2014) is one of the most important and internationally influential German filmmakers. His oeuvre comprises more than 100 films and productions: experimental and documentary films; essay, short and feature films. However, his complete works go far beyond this, he has also succeeded internationally as a video and installation artist as well as being a lecturer and media theorist.
To Harun Farocki writing was inextricably linked with his cinematic works; his work on the concept of the image always involved a translation from the image to the text and vice versa. The autobiography from his estate, which has now been published, constitutes a great exception in his oeuvre: Farocki was not able to complete it; he died in July 2014. We here have a work, which has remained unfinished in itself—but precisely this makes this autobiography so fascinating. It portrays his tragic childhood, Farocki’s escape to West Berlin, the fortune of having discovered film, although he wanted to become a writer, his turning to outsiderism, his radicalism of thought, his vision, his power of observation, the growing ability to analyze social structures, the politicization of life. In his autobiography, Farocki adopts the attitude of the filmmaker, he is not only a critical reader of his own life, but also of the current events, which form the backdrop of the entire narrative.
The autobiography is published on the occasion of the Harun Farocki Retrospective, September 14, 2017 – January 28, 2018, initiated by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in cooperation with Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, the Harun Farocki Institute, Harun Farocki GbR, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König and Savvy Contemporary as part of the Berlin Art Week, sponsored by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture.
The publication can be purchased at local bookshops, via the website of Buchhandlung Walther König, and at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Members of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein can buy the book at n.b.k. for the special price of 15.00 Euro.
n.b.k. Discourse Vol. 10
Edited by Marius Babias and Antje Ehmann. With a preface by Marius Babias and a text by Antje Ehmann.
208 pages, with illustrations, soft cover, German, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017 – OUT OF PRINT –
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Harun Farocki. Meine Nächte mit den Linken. Texte 1964–1975. Schriften. Band 3
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Harun Farocki. Ich habe genug! Texte 1976–1985. Schriften. Band 4
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As an editor and contributor of Filmkritik, Harun Farocki wrote more than 90 articles for the journal between 1976 and 1985 and shaped its character as a platform for polemic and partisan film thinking. Volume 4 of […]
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Harun Farocki. Unregelmäßig, nicht regellos. Texte 1986–2000. Schriften. Band 5
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In the years between 1986 and 2000, Harun Farocki increasingly organized his cinematic work along the three categories of the observational film, the essay film, and the compilation film. In the mid-1990s, he also created his first installation works […]
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Harun Farocki: Lerne das Einfachste! Texte 2001–2014. Schriften. Band 6
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Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki (*1944 in Nový Jičín, Sudetenland, †2015 in Berlin) worked as a filmmaker, curator and producer and with his work influenced the genre of essay and experimental documentary film. Characteristic of his image- and media-reflexive work is the critical analysis of economic power structures. Farocki took into account the singularity of the shot and commented the employed material, such […]
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Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki (*1944 in Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia, †2014 near Berlin) is considered one of the most important and internationally influential German filmmakers. He was an ethnographer of capitalist lifestyles, which he intellectually dissected and analyzed. Central to his approach and overall work is the investigation of the significance of images, their origins and especially the power structures inscribed in them. […]