Films 1972

1972

Remember Tomorrow is the
First Day in the Rest of Your Life
Farocki's ten minute short film is composed of shots of an AFN DJ at work (approximately a quarter of the film) and of a car ride, whereby the camera points out of the car (through the windscreen or the side windows) or it captures and tracks a passing car. [...] The unemotional narrator (her serene, "didactic and informative" style is the exact opposite of the high key radio) and scraps of songs illustrate the connection between music and memory, the accelerating tracking shots in "Remember" demonstrate how closely driving and filmic perception are related. In a calm voice, the woman explains that music on the radio wakens memories, memories which are a gift from radio, a program filled with subjective conditions. View More »

director, scriptwriter, editor: Harun Farocki cinematographer:
Fritz Grosche assistant director: Klaus Krahn music: The Velvet
Underground: Afterhours, Don McLean: American Pie, The New
Seekers: I'd like to Teach the World to Sing, Neil Young: Heart of Gold,

Ray Stevens: Turn Your Radio On production: SFB, Berlin-West
length: 10 min. format: 16mm, col., 1:1,37 first broadcast: 14.04.72,
Nord 3 note: commissioned for TV series Studio III/
Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft

1972

Die Sprache der Revolution.
Beispiele revolutionärer Rhetorik, untersucht von Hans
Christoph Buch
The program is a kind of filmic essay about the language of revolution. The examples it uses are taken from speeches by the leaders of the French Revolution Danton and St. Just (in Georg Büchner's drama Dantons Death), by Fidel Castro and Malcolm X, by Lenin and Rudi Dutschke.The narration is partly spoken by the author himself and attempts to place each speech (its vocabulary, rhetorical gesture and political aspiration) within the appropriate historical and socio-political context. A few short scenes are intended to make definable qualities of the language of revolution become apparent ("On development aid", "On borrowing strange costumes", "On provoking"). At the end of the film, Hans Christoph Buch sums up: "To be able to assess a speech or a text, one has to ask: Who is speaking? Who are the audience? When and where did they live? To which class do they belong? What is the audience's situation? Does the speech they are hearing help them in any way? Does it restore speech to the dumb? Does it make the blind man see?" (production statement )