Films 1996
71
1996
Die Küchenhilfen
 
From material produced for Was ist los? / What's Up?. Contribution to the magazine program Brut (arte). (production statement)
director, scriptwriter, interviews:
Harun Farocki cinematographer:
Ingo Kratisch second cinemato-
grapher Arthur Ahrweiler editor:
Rosa Mercedes, Irina Hoppe sound:
Gerhard Merz sound assistant : Klaus
Klingler, Ronny Tanner
mixing: Gerhard Jensen-Nelson
researcher: Michael Trabitzsch production:
Harun Farocki Filmproduktion, Berlin, for
WDR, Köln producer: Harun Farocki
TV-producer: Werner Dütsch length:
60 min. format: 16mm, col., 1:1,37
first broadcast: 26.01.1996, arte
 
72
1996
Theater der Umschulung
 
From material produced for Die Umschulung/ Indoctrination. Contribution to the magazine program Brut (arte). (With Der Auftritt Farocki once again takes us into the world of advertising, following Image und Umsatz or Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen? (1989). An advertising agency has to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by the manager who is the first to see the campaign. The logo submitted, ‚Eyedentity', is examined from every angle: it must simultaneously express both the company's dynamism and its reliability! A fascinating, dispassionate glimpse behind closed doors, where every detail is dramatised to win that lucrative contract. (production statement)
director, scriptwriter: Harun
Farocki assistant director: Ronny
Tanner cinematographer: Ingo
Kratisch, Thomas Arslan editor:
Max Reimann sound: Klaus Klingler
assistant producer: Aysun
Bademsoy, Anna Faroqhi, Elke Naters
production: SWF, Baden-Baden, Harun
Filmproduktion, Berlin producer: Harun
Farocki TV-producer: Ebbo Demant length:
4 min. format: video-BetaSp, col. 1:1,37
first broadcast: 27.06.1996, arte
 
1996
Der Auftritt
The Appearance
 
The head of a Berlin advertising agency explains his proposed strategy to his potential client, a Danish optical company. The communication strategy that we ultimately came up with as a basis or any creative act or means of communication has three headings. The first is 'relevant, not arrogant'; the second, 'varied, not uniform'; and the third is, 'creative, not pushy'. These are essentially translations, strategic translations of your basic requirements and your analysis of the market, as well. (From the transcription of "The Appearance")
With Der Auftritt Farocki once again takes us into the world of advertising, following Image und Umsatz oder wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen? (1989). An advertising agency has to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by the manager who is the first to see the campaign. The logo submitted, ‚Eyedentity', is examined from every angle: it must simultaneously express both the company's dynamism and its reliability! A fascinating, dispassionate glimpse behind closed doors, where every detail is dramatised to win that lucrative contract.
director, scriptwriter: Harun
Farocki cinematographer: Ingo
Kratisch second cinemato-
grapher: Rosa Mercedes (Harun
Farocki) editor: Max Reimann
sound: Ronny Tanner production:
Harun Farocki Filmproduktion,
Berlin, for 3-sat, Mainz producer:
Harun Fatocki executive producer:
Ulrich Ströhle TV-producer: Inge
Classen length: 40 min. format:
video - BetaSp, col., 1:1,37
first broadcast: 14.07.1996, 3sat
 
74
1996
Der Werbemensch
 
From material produced for / The Appearance. Contribution to the magazine program Brut (arte). (production statement)
director, scriptwriter: Harun
Farocki cinematographer: Ingo
Kratisch second cinemato-
grapher Rosa Mercedes (Harun
Farocki) editor: Max Reimann
sound: Ronny Tanner production: Harun
Farocki Filmproduktion, Berlin, for 3-sat,
Mainz producer: Harun Fatocki TV-
producer: Inge Classen length: 3 min.
format: video - BetaSp, col., 1:1,37
first broadcast: 17.01.1997, arte