Harun Farocki
German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film (1944–2014)
Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. [1]
Early life and education
Farocki was born as Harun El Usman Faroqhi [2] in Neutitschein , which is now Nový Jičín in the Czech Republic . His father, Abdul Qudus Faroqui, had immigrated to Germany from India in the 1920s. His German mother had been evacuated from Berlin due to the Allied bombing of Germany . [3] [4] He simplified the spelling of his surname as a young man. [2] After World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia [3] [4] before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958.
Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard , studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1966 to 1968. He began making films – from the very beginning, they were non-narrative essays on the politics of imagery – in the mid-1960s. [2] From 1974 to 1984, when its publication ceased, he edited the magazine Filmkritik .
From 1993 to 1999, Farocki taught at the University of California, Berkeley . [2] He later was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . He died unexpectedly on 30 July 2014, aged 70.
Work
He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries .
In his 2000-2003 three-part installation, Eye/Machine , Farocki coined the term " operational image ". [5] [6] [7] [8]
Farocki's work was included in the 2004–05 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh . Pennsylvania . [9]
A first major UK retrospective of his films was held at Tate Modern in 2009. [10]
The 2011 exhibition "Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)" at the Museum of Modern Art was the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Farocki's work in a U.S. museum. [11]
Films (selection)
(D = Director, E = Editor, S = Screenplay, P = Production, A = Actor)
- 1969: Die Worte des Vorsitzenden - The Words of The Chairman
- 1969: Nicht löschbares Feuer - Inextinguishable Fire (Short, D)
- 1970: Die Teilung aller Tage - The Division of All Days (D, E, S)
- 1971: Eine Sache, die sich versteht (D, S, P)
- 1975: By Hook or by Crook (S)
- 1978: Zwischen zwei Kriegen ( Between Two Wars ) (D, E, S, P) - Himself / narrator
- 1979: Ich räume auf (A) - Herausgeber
- 1980: Henry Angst (A)
- 1981: Etwas wird sichtbar (A)
- 1981: Etwas wird sichtbar - Before Your Eyes Vietnam (D, S, P)
- 1983: Ein Bild - An Image
- 1983: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (at work on Franz Kafka's "Amerika")
- 1984: Klassenverhältnisse ( Straub-Huillet 's) (A) - Delamarche
- 1985: Betrogen ( Betrayed ) (D, S)
- 1986: Wie man sieht ( As You See ) (D, S, P)
- 1987: Bilderkrieg (D)
- 1987: Die Schulung
- 1989: Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges ( Images of the World and the Inscription of War ) (D, S, P)
- 1990: Leben: BRD - How to live in the Federal Republic of Germany (D, S, P)
- 1991: Videogramme einer Revolution ( Videograms of a Revolution ) (D, S, P)
- 1993: Was ist los? - What's up? (D, S)
- 1994: Die Umschulung
- 1995: Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik ( Workers Leaving the Factory )
- 1995: Schnittstelle
- 1996: Die Bewerbung - The Interview (TV) (D, S)
- 1996: Der Auftritt - The Appearance
- 1997: Stilleben - Still Life (D, S)
- 1997: Nach dem Spiel (P)
- 1998: Worte und Spiele
- 2000: Die innere Sicherheit - The State I Am In (S)
- 2000: Gefängnisbilder ( Prison Images ) (D, S)
- 2001: Auge/Maschine
- 2001: Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten - The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (D, S)
- 2003: Erkennen und Verfolgen (D, S, P)
- 2004: Nicht ohne Risiko (D, S, P)
- 2005: Die Hochzeitsfabrik (P)
- 2005: Ghosts (S)
- 2006: Am Rand der Städte (P)
- 2007: Aufschub
- 2007: Respite - first episode of Memories (Jeonju Digital Project 2007)
- 2009: Zum Vergleich (D, S)
- 2009-2010: Serious Games I-IV Video series
- 2012: Barbara (S)
- 2014: Phoenix (S)
DVD
Images of the world and the inscription of war and Respite were released on Region 0 DVD on 7 June 2011 by Survivance. [12]
Personal life
Farocki's first wife, Ursula Lefkes, whom he married in 1966, died in 1996. His survivors include his second wife, Antje Ehmann, whom he married in 2001; twin daughters from his first marriage, Annabel Lee and Larissa Lu; and eight grandchildren. [2]
References
- ↑ Forbes, Alexander (31 July 2014). "Harun Farocki, Celebrated Filmmaker, Dead at 70" . Artnet . Retrieved 31 July 2014 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 Margalit Fox (3 August 2014), Harun Farocki, Filmmaker of Modern Life, Dies at 70 New York Times .
- 1 2 Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg (31 July 2014). "Einflussreicher Filmemacher: Harun Farocki ist tot - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Kultur" . Spiegel.de . Retrieved 22 March 2017 .
- 1 2 Dotzauer, Gregor (31 July 2014). "Harun Farocki - Bilder, die die Welt zerlegen" . TagesSpiegel.de . Retrieved 22 March 2017 .
- ↑ Image Operations . Manchester University Press. 24 December 2016. doi : 10.7228/manchester/9781526107213.003.0004 . ISBN 978-1-5261-0721-3 .
- ↑ Hoel, Aud Sissel (8 October 2018). Operative Images. Inroads to a New Paradigm of Media Theory . De Gruyter. doi : 10.1515/9783110464979-002 . ISBN 978-3-11-046497-9 .
- ↑ "Operational Images - Journal #59 November 2014 - e-flux" . www.e-flux.com . Retrieved 12 July 2022 .
- ↑ "Operational Images – Preface in the forthcoming book" . Machinology . 16 February 2022 . Retrieved 12 July 2022 .
- ↑ "Carnegie International Exhibition - Michael Maltzan Architecture" . MMaltzan.com . Retrieved 22 March 2017 .
- ↑ "Harun Farocki. 22 Films 1968-2009" .
- ↑ "Harun Farocki: Images of War (At a Distance) | MoMA" .
- ↑ "Images du monde et inscription de la guerre // En sursis de Harun Farocki - Survivance" . www.survivance.net . Retrieved 10 June 2021 .
External links
- Harun Farocki Official site
- Harun Farocki at IMDb
- Harun Farocki in the Video Data Bank
- 'Harun Farocki. Empathy', Exhibition at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
- Vídeo of the talk by Antje Ehmann about the Harun Farocky's work 'Labour in a Single Shot' at Fundació Antoni Tàpies museum, Barcelona, 2016
Academic articles
- Embodied histories. Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică's Videograms of a Revolution.
- Pantenburg, Volker: Farocki/Godard: Film as Theory . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2015.
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