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1969
- Nicht löschbares Feuer
- Inextinguishable Fire
- "When we show you pictures of napalm victims, you'll shut your eyes. You'll close your eyes to the pictures. Then you'll close them to the memory. And then you'll close your eyes to the facts." These words are spoken at the beginning of an agitprop film that can be viewed as a unique and remarkable development. Farocki refrains from making any sort of emotional appeal. His point of departure is the following: "When napalm is burning, it is too late to extinguish it. You have to fight napalm where it is produced: in the factories." Resolutely, Farocki names names: the manufacturer is Dow Chemical, based in Midland, Michigan in the United States. Against backdrops suggesting the laboratories and offices of this corporation, the film then proceeds to educate us with an austerity reminiscent of Jean Marie Straub. Farocki's development unfolds: View More »
- director, scriptwriter, editor: Harun
- Farocki assistant director: Helke
- Sander cinematographer: Gerd
- Conradt sound: Ulrich Knaudt cast:
- Harun Farocki, Hanspeter Krüger,
- Eckart Kammer, Caroline Gremm,
- Gerd Volker Bussäus, Ingrid
- Oppermann production: Harun
- Farocki, Berlin-West für WDR, Köln
- length: 25 min. format: 16mm,
- b/w, 1:1,37 first broadcast:
- 27.07.69, West 3
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1969
- Ohne Titel oder: Nixon kommt nach Berlin
- In Switzerland people say, "I don't recall", when they mean "I don't remember", but which sounds like, "I won't remember". (Harun Farocki)
- director, scriptwriter: Harun Farocki cinematographer:
- Giorgios Xylandreu production: Larabel Film Harun Farocki,
- Berlin-West, Sozialistische Filmemacher Cooperative West-Berlin
- length: 2 min. format: 16mm, b/w, 1:1,37 note: The film is
- is presumably lost
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1969
- Anleitung, Polizisten den Helm abzureißen
- According to Fritz J. Raddatz, Rosa Luxemburg cried when she read Marx's concept of value. I was just as disappointed by the 'Cine-Tracts' made in May 1968 in Paris and shown shortly afterwards in Berlin. I must have been expecting something more like television news coverage; in much the same way, each crowd which saw our handbill films during those years was similarly disappointed. Because we didn't make 'real' films, as my mother called them, it seemed to them that their cause wasn't being acknowledged in suitably official form, something which workers' films and Fassbinder were later to achieve. We made this spot during one of the many breaks in filming a somewhat reckless film about playgroups by Susanne Beyeler. Wolfgang Gremm stripped naked on a flat roof and played a policeman. We played on the anti-humanist provocation of showing, purely technically, how to fight a policeman, but didn't go so far as to use an androgynous, long-haired actor - something which Gremm, the fattest and shortest-haired of us all, accepted with a grin. (Harun Farocki)
- director, scriptwriter, editor: Harun Farocki cinematographer:
- Michael Geißler production: Larabel Film Harun Farocki, Berlin-West,
- Rote Zelle Germanistik (FU Berlin), Sozialistische Filmemacher
- Cooperative West-Berlin length: 2 min. format: 16mm, b/w, 1:1,37
- note: The film is presumably lost