Films 1997
1997
- Die Bewerbung
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- The Interview
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- In the summer of 1996, we filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university graduates, people who have been re-trained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts, and mid-level managers - all of them are supposed to learn how to market and sell themselves, a skill to which the term "self management" is applied. The self is perhaps nothing more than a metaphysical hook from which to hang a social identity. It was Kafka who likened being accepted for a job to entering the Kingdom of Heaven; the paths leading to both are completely uncertain. Today one speaks of getting a job with the greatest obsequiousness, but without any grand expectations. (Harun Farocki)
- director, scriptwriter: Harun Farocki
- cinematographer: Ingo Kratisch
- second cinematographer: Bernd
- Löhr editor: Max Reimann sound:
- Ludger Blanke music:
Neil Young
- researcher: Ludger Blanke
- production: Harun Farocki Film-
- produktion, Berlin, for den Süd-
- deutschen Rundfunk, Stuttgart
- producer: Harun Farocki
- TV-producer: Juliane Endres
- length: 58 min. format: video
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- BetaSp, col., 1:1,37 first
- broadcast: 18.02.1997, arte
- commissioned for the TV series
- La vie en face / Welt im Blick
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1997
- Die Werbebotschaft
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- From material produced for Der Auftritt / The Appearance. Contribution to the magazine program Brut (arte).
(production statement)
- director, scriptwriter: Harun
- Farocki cinematographer: Ingo
- Kratisch second cinematographer:
- Rosa Mercedes editor: Max Reimann
- sound: Ronny Tanner
- production: Harun Farocki Filmproduction,
- Berlin producer: Harun Farocki
executive
- producer: Ulrich Ströhle TV-producer:
Inge
- Inge Classen length: 3 min. format:
- video-BetaSp, col., 1:1,37 first broadcast:
- 04.04.1997, arte
1997
- Stilleben
- Still Life
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- According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from everyday life - the "still life". The filmmaker illustrates this intriguing hypothesis with three documentary sequences which show the photographers at work creating a contemporary "still life": a cheese-board, beer glasses and an expensive watch.
- director, scriptwriter: Harun
- Farocki cinematographer: Ingo
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- Kratisch editor: Irina Hoppe, Rosa
- Mercedes, Jan Ralske sound:
- Ludger Blanke, Jason Lopez, Hugues
- Peyret mixing: Gerhard Jensen-Nelson
- collaboration: Jörg Becker, Dina
- Ciraulo, Cathérine Mariette narrator:
- Hanns Zischler production: Harun
- Fatocki Filmproduktion, Berlin,
- Movimento Production (Christian
- Baute, Pierre Hanau), in coproduction
- with ZDF/ 3sat, RTBF-Carré Noir
- (Christiane Philippe), Latitudes
- Production (Jacques-Henri Bronckart),
- ORF (Dr. Heinrich Mis), in
- collaboration with NOS TV The
- Netherlands Programme Service (Cees
- van Ede), Planète Cable (Michel
- Badinter), with support from Centre

- National de la Cinématographie, France,
- documenta X (Brigitte Kramer) TV-producer:
- Inge Classen length: 56 min. format: 16mm,
- col. first screening: August 1997, documenta X
- first broadcast: 07.09.1997, 3sat
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1997
- Das Bild der Uhr
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- From material produced for Stilleben / Still Life. Contribution to the magazine program Brut (arte).
(production statement)
- length: 3 min. format: 16mm, col. first broadcast:
- 19.09.1997, arte
1997
- Der Ausdruck der Hände
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- Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their attention on hands. Using film extracts, Farocki explores this visual language, it's symbolism, Freudian slips, automatisms and its music. Often, hands betray an emotion which the face tries to dissimulate. They can also function as a conduit (exchanging money) or witness to a form of competence (work)
- director: Harun Farocki scriptwriter:
- Harun Farocki, Jörg Becker cinemato-
- grapher: Ingo Kratisch sound: Klaus
- Klingler editor: Max Reimann
- researcher in the USA: David Barker,
- Tom Bigelow length: 30 min. format:
- video-BetaSp, 1:1,37 production:
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- Harun Farocki Filmproduktion, Berlin,
- for WDR TV-producer: Werner Dütsch
- first broadcast: 07.09.1997, 3sat