- director, scriptwriter, commentary, Interview:
- Harun Farocki assistant director: Michael Pehlke
- cinematographer: Ingo Kratisch, Ronny Tanner editor:
- Rosa Mercedes negative cut: Elke Granke sound:
- Manfred Blank, Klaus Klingler mixing: Gerhard Jensen
- researcher: Michael Pehlke narrator: Corinna Belz
- production: Harun Farocki Filmproduction, Berlin-West,
- with financial support from Hamburger Filmbüro producer:
- Harun Farocki, Ulrich Ströhle length: 72 min. format:
- 16mm, b/w and Eastmancolor, 1:1,37 first screening:
- 08.06.86, Berlin-West (Kinofest '86) Austrian premiere:
- 03.04. 1987, Wien (Stadtkino) first release: 28.05. 1987,
- Köln distributor: Basis first broadcast: 9.03.1990, West 3
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1986
- Filmbücher
- A review of film books old and new. (production statement)
- director, scriptwriter, commentary: Harun Farocki
- production: WDR, Köln length: 15 min. format:
- Video-1-inch-VTR, col., 1:1,37 first broadcast:
- 17.04.1986, West 3 note: commissioned for the
- TV series Kino '86
1986
- Wie man sieht
- As You See
- My film As You See is an action-filled feature film. It reflects upon girls in porn magazines to whom names are ascribed and about the nameless dead in mass graves, upon machines that are so ugly that coverings have to be used to protect the workers' eyes, upon engines that are too beautiful to be hidden under the hoods of cars, upon labor techniques that either cling to the notion of the hand and the brain working together or want to do away with it.
My film As You See is an essay film. The contemporary opinion industry is like a huge mouth, or maybe a paper shredder. I compose a new text out of these scraps and thus stage a paper-chase.
My film is made up of many details and creates a lot of image-image and word-image and word-word relationships among them. So there's a lot to chew on. I searched for and found a form in which once can make a little money go a long way. (Harun Farocki)
1986
- Schlagworte - Schlagbilder.
- Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
- Farocki questions philosopher Vilém Flusser about the way the front page of the daily tabloid Bild Zeitung is put together. This page is conceived as an entity in itself: on the one hand, it's impossible to reach the text without referring to the images, used maximum impact; on the other hand, the headline typography - large white letters on black - creates a potent and brutal visual impression. Image and text reinforce each other then, to provoke the same media "impact" . (Festivalkatalog, Locarno 1998)
- director, scriptwriter, commen-
- tary, Interview: Harun Farocki
- production: WDR, Köln length:
- 13 min. format: Video-1-inch-
- VTR, col., 1:1,37 first broadcast:
- 01.05.1986, West 3 note:
- commissioned for the TV series
- Filmtip
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1986
- Filmtip: Kuhle Wampe
- Farocki introduces the Slatan Dudow/Brecht Film Kuhle Wampe. (production statement)
- director, scriptwriter, commentary: Harun Farocki
- length: 6 min. format: video-1-inch-VTR, col., 1:1,37
- first broadcast: 01.05.1986, WDR, Köln note:
- commissioned for the TV series Filmtip
