Harun Farocki's iconic film about the artist Sarah Schumann
The Goethe-Institut Glasgow presents a special film series of Harun Farocki's work, cocurated by Antje Ehmann and Sophia Yadong Hao. Tonight we offer two films about artistic creation:
An Image by Sarah Schumann (1978) and
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka's unpublished novel "Amerika" (1983).
Harun Farocki developed a pioneering style of filmmaking building on the social criticism of Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Luc Godard, and the Frankfurt School theorist Theodor Adorno. In
Workers Leaving the Factory, for instance, flashes of iconic images appear—such as the workers leaving the Lumiere factory in the first moving image from 1895, or snippets of films with Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin. These fragments of the cinematic past tell a nonlinear story of cinema, not so much about technological development as our enthrallment to and emotional investment in the cinematic image. From his early anti-Vietnam films made in the political crucible of the 1960s to the
Serious Games series, Farocki self-reflexively turns to images to explore the invisible systems in which our lives are entangled, such as capitalism, the mediascape, and war. Images thus are not so much representations of but also interventions that create worlds in and of themselves.
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