Veronica Project Space Presents: Three by Harun Farocki
Wed Mar 18:
Admission is Free! Please RSVP to reserve your seat!
Harun Farocki
Germany
1969-2012
1h 35m
About
(Harun Farocki, 1969-2012, Germany, 95 min, in XXX with English subtitles)
Images and films provided by Video Data Bank.
Veronica Project Space is pleased to present three films by Harun Farocki at Northwest Film Forum.
Farocki’s graceful and observant films invariably reflected on the methods we use to construct and distribute images.
Frequently, he went to places of focused production – a prison, a virtual reality facility used to train soldiers, a commercial photo shoot – and managed to describe the abstractions, the rules, the exercises and negotiations of power behind the surface of such images.
The three career-spanning films presented in this program deal with our changing relationship to how we see and how meaning is made.
FILMS IN THIS PROGRAM:
Indistinguishable Fire (1969, 22 min.)
“When we show you pictures of napalm victims, you’ll shut your eyes. You’ll close your eyes to the pictures. Then you’ll close them to the memory. And then you’ll close your eyes to the facts.”
– Harun Farocki
War at a Distance (2003, 58 min)
“In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those generated on a computer. This loss of bearings was to change forever our way of deciphering what we see. The image is no longer used only as testimony, but also as an indispensable link in a process of production and destruction. This is the central premise of War at a Distance, which continues the deconstruction of claims to visual objectivity Harun Farocki developed in his earlier work. With the help of archival and original material, Farocki sets out in effect to define the relationship between military strategy and industrial production, and sheds light on how the technology of war finds applications in everyday life.”
– Antje Ehmann
Parallel I (2012, 15 min)
“Apparently today computer animation is taking the lead. Our subject is the development and creation of digital animation. If, for example, a forest has to be covered in foliage, the basic genetic growth program will be applied, so that ‘trees with fresh foliage’, ‘a forest in which some trees bear four-week-old foliage, others six-week-old foliage’ can be created. The more generative algorithms are used, the more the image detaches itself from the appearance as found and becomes an ideal-typical.”
– Harun Farocki
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