Films 1975

1975

Über "Song of Ceylon" von Basil Wright
Farocki shows and comments on excerpts from the film Song of Ceylon by Basil Wright. (production statement)

1975

Erzählen
Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. Ideas of fictional research projects in films emerge very early on, or of film as research device, allowing people from different disciplines to come together and discover something, to pursue a line of thought, or just be adventurous. These ideas correspond to a tendency we both have of accumulating knowledge from different sciences, for example so as to bring exact sciences like medicine together with subjects which aren't directly aimed at application, such as religious studies or anthropology. In 1975 HaF is still at Berlin's Free University, searching for the crossing of the lines. I myself am on the trail through my films. What are envisaged are spontaneous, undogmatic combinations. It should be possible to include anything as in the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Theoretically disparate things should join with the research in a reality concerned with living and surviving - Winnicott's "primitive agony". Besides this and contained within it there is the perceptional world of our little daughters, his (Anna and Lara) and mine (Muriel). "Childhood? It is here, we have never left it. Erzählen is a sketch of this situation. (Ingemo Engström)