Harun Farocki, Kaja Silverman, To Love to Work and To Work to Love - A Conversation about "Passion" in: Discourse ,15.3 Spring 1993, S. 57 - 75

H.F.: One of my thoughts is that the idea behind that work is: how to make a film out of music? Not out of the spirit of music; but music in that strange literal way which would prompt a director to go to a Hollywood producer and say, "I like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony so that I want to make a film out of it." And the producer would respond, "Great piece, go ahead."
K.S.: Of course the second idea behind Passion is how to make a film out of masterpieces of art. This second idea is closely related to the first, since the film's real project is somehow to make us "see" the music and "hear" the paintings. This curious project of making sounds visible and images hearable also implicit in all of the film's experiments with asyn- chronicity.