Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-Lines

by Thomas Elsaesser (Editor)

Filmmaker, film essayist, installation artist, writer: the Berlin artist Harun Farocki has devoted his life to the power of images. Over the thirty-plus years of his career, Farocki has explored not the images of life but rather the life of images that surrounds us in newspapers, cinema, books, television, and advertising. Harun Farocki examines, from different critical perspectives, his vast oeuvre, which includes three feature films, critical media pieces, children’s television features, “learning films” in the tradition of Brecht, and installation pieces. Interviews, a selection of Farocki’s own writings, and an annotated filmography complete a valuable biography of this pioneering artist and his legendary career.

Genres: Film

382 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Thomas Elsaesser was a German film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Reviews

[Sean Tatol · Rating 3 out of 5]

The portions by Farocki himself are fantastic, nothing by anyone else was particularly illuminating. If you are going to read from a .pdf, as I did (which is likely, the going price for a physical copy is comical), I'd recommend tracking down Nachdruck/Imprint instead which is exclusively his writing and includes almost all of his work in this book.