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Tomorrow Wednesday, January 21st 2015, 7:00pm in our film series As You See: Harun Farocki: War at a Distance / Inextinguishable Fire Erkennen und verfolgen (War at a Distance) Dir. Harun Farocki, Germany, 2003, 58 min. color and b/w. German with English subtitles, Digital. In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those generated with a computer. This loss of bearings was to forever change our way of deciphering what we see. The image is no longer used only as testimony, but also as an indispensable link in a process of production and destruction. This is the central premise of War at a Distance, which continues the deconstruction of claims to visual objectivity Harun Farocki developed in his earlier work. With the help of archival and original material, Farocki sets out in effect to define the relationship between military strategy and industrial production and sheds light on how the technology of war finds applications in everyday life. (Antje Ehmann) Source: farocki-film.de Nicht löschbares Feuer (Inextinguishable Fire) Dir. Harun Farocki, Germany, 1969, 25 min., B/W, German with English subtitles, Digital. Harun Farocki’s first film after leaving film school combines didactics and political agitation with a sparse cinematic style. Farocki contrasts the voyeurism of Vietnam War reporting with a didactic arrangement: a model reconstruction of napalm manufacture is followed by a playful call to revolution. Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, 5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036 German with English subtitles Free Admission, RSVP needed Info +1 323 5253388 [email protected] youtu.be/RHKYR333xaE?list=PL1XoWNfhmrWXcfzxx2wuy_lA_-RZbnfUs
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:28:00 +0000

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