Films 1987

1987

Die Schulung
Indoctrination
This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives how to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the basic rules of dialectics and rhetoric and provides training in body language, gesture and facial expression. The aim of selling something has always been a principle of mercantile action. Yet it was only through the marriage of psychology and modern capitalism that the idea of selling oneself was perfected. (Lutz Hachmeister)

1987

Filmtip:" Der Tod des Empedokles"
Farocki talks to Andreas Rauch, who plays Empedokles in the film by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. (production statement)

1987

Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen
A film based on the poem Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen by Georg Heym (1911). (production statement)

1987

Bilderkrieg
There are more pictures today than the eye can cope with. Science has set about developing automatic image recognition devices and there have long existed machines capable of producing or simulating images by themselves. At any given moment almost every corner of the planet is being photographed by satellites. The photographer's eyes and hands are almost relics from the 19th century.This documentary is about these innovations and their history. For example: In 1979, two CIA employees examined the photos taken by the Second World War Allies over German held territory. They discovered pictures of the Auschwitz concentration camp recording the way the death factory operated. One can see a train, one group of inmates waiting in line to be killed through work and another group being led to the crematorium complex; its gates are open and on the roof one can see the vents through which the SS dropped the poison Zyklon-B. View More »