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1968
- Ihre Zeitungen
- Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the Berliner Zeitung and the Bild Zeitung. Claiming the latter were manipulating public opinion, the students laid siege to the publisher's offices. These events made a strong impression on the German collective conscience, and it's in this context that Farocki made this "agit-prop" film. (Catalouge, Locarno Filmfestival, 1998)
- director, scriptwriter, editor: Harun
- Farocki assistant director: Helke
- Sander cinematographer: Skip
- Norman sound: Ulrich Knaudt
- production: DFFB, Berlin-West
- length: 17 min.
- format: 16mm, b/w, 1:1,37
1968
- White Christmas
- One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken seriously, or whether it is intended as a denunciation. In either event, America's war in Vietnam is denounced. (Harun Farocki)
- director, scriptwriter, editor: Harun Farocki cinematographer:
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- Skip Norman music: Bing Crosby: White Christmas production:
- DFFB, Berlin-West length: 3 min. format: 16mm, b/w, 1:1,37
07
1968
- Drei Schüsse auf Rudi
- On Easter 1968 an assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke was carried out. Shortly afterwards street battles resulted throughout West Germany. Farocki's short film Drei Schüsse auf Rudi is presumably lost.
"At the time, I was working in a team with Helke Sander who had acquired some money from Finnish television. Easter 1968 overturned all our shooting schedules. I suggested a short sequence of scenes which we then filmed on a patch of concrete near the Funkturm (West Berlin's radio tower). At the start, I am sketching an outline plan of the Springer Group with all its various involvements; this layout is developed further with balloon captions like, "Students protesting against mass murder in Vietnam"; then comes an arrow pointing to the next circle, in which I then write, "BILD speaks of rowdies and ring-leaders". And so it progresses like a flowchart until at the end there are only two circles left over - in which I don't write anything, but slip of my shoes and exit the frame. The scene took place on the Kurfürstendamm. After Dutschke had been shot, his bicycle was left behind as were his shoes, in chalk circles made by the police. That is the influence of the happening, a ritual comprehension." (Harun Farocki)
- director, scriptwriter, editor: Harun Farocki cinematographer:
- Skip Norman sound: Ulrich Knaudt production: DFFB, Berlin-West
- length: 4 min. format: 16mm, s/w, 1:1,37, silent note: The film is
- presumably lost
08
1968
- Ohne Titel oder: Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten
- The film Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition's (APO) so-called 'technology campaign' aimed at politicizing the students at the technical universities and schools of engineering. […] The film is now missing, but according to Farocki's description it began with an agitation scene in which an actor said, "I am a student at a school of engineering. My work is threefold. Firstly, I have to study. Secondly, I work in the student's council examining student organizations. Thirdly, I am working on the connection between student organization and worker's organization." The following thirty minutes showed documentary scenes of four engineers talking about their work situation, each shown in one long track from long shot to a medium close-up. The film ended with another staged sequence. Three times the same actor appears before the camera in a washroom and reads three different texts, each time assuming a different role. (Tilman Baumgärtel)
- director: Harun Farocki scriptwriter: Rote Zelle Technik der
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- TU Berlin production: DFFB, Berlin-West length: 40 min.
- format: 1-inch Ampex, b/w, 1:1,37
