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Harun Farocki as a teacher of life

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As in the article "Harun Farocki: The ultimately triumphal climb of the sharp look" , Harun Farocki has been one of our more well -known filmmakers for a long time.

However, for our more well -known critical filmmakers, never mainstream, which makes it curious about the reason why Harun Farocki has been at number 23 on the world rankings of art by over 300 places by (January 2016). There is a reason because:

Harun Farocki teaches us our world

Harun Farocki is often referred to as essay filmmakers, which means that the admirers of his documentary treatises of current life, our science and our culture, our government and our society are also absolutely right.

And yet it is a little bit: Farocki's films are certainly witty, but whether they are really essays (witty treatises in which scientific, cultural and/or social phenomena are addressed and analyzed); Or whether it is only essays can be doubted.

Farocki's films immediately illuminate our today's life, his issues affect us all, and he, by the way, manages to expose some madness at an apparently calm pace that distinguishes today's life.

In the beginning, 1969, still "the words of the chairman" (Mao tse tung), he had already arrived at the externally determined work animal with "the division of all days" , in 1971 he devoted himself to the capitalist value of goods and workforce "a thing that sees itself"

The first topic of war flashes in 1981 with "something becomes visible" "training" how the leader employee is trained "nonsense" And in 1990, in "Life: FRG" Farocki shows us the absurd world of risk (no-risk) society with a full overview.

In 1994 Farocki, in the "retraining" , put the recipes of success of a "sales company" on the grain, with direct references to the training contained in the inertia of the brain: "If you go away here, your vocabulary will have decidedly reduced."

"application" is about the suspended, the application training course long -term unemployed, whose language absurdities convey the same hopelessness as "The appearance" (1996) of the protagonists from the advertising industry.

In 1998 Farocki took us talk and game shows, stupid machines that are somewhere on the edge of a big city and earn their money with the fact that any everyday fame is humiliated by a celebrity that is not known.

In 2012, the consumption language comes a little absurd, in "A new product" the creator waves himself into the linguistic diaspora with oysters and pearls, more of a student on the board as a clever product manager.

In the article "Harun Farocki: Leiser, Triumphaler rise of the sharp look", many and much more serious films Farockis are presented, he has also seen and treated war and weapons, state and military and thousands of other things. His late work, which fills museums, artificial houses and galleries, also fills long theoretical considerations, below the direct access is shown to you.

But Harun Farocki's films about everyday life, the work, the capitalist conditions are important to all of us. Above all, those who are currently looking at the changes in the rules of our society rather horrified should pull in a few Harun Farocki films-it is always impressive how Farocki has already captured "all the crap" in the film, while today as psychotic and intangible managers were still in no way in an unrestricted admiration of society and the average citizen has not yet had a pale idea of ​​how the mechanisms Work with which our society should prepare itself and put it itself in just about a decade.

A lot of us currently notice this, and the resistors are greater in all undesirable directions. It is absolutely a reason for grief that Harun Farocki is no longer there to teach us the watchful look.

Harun Farocki - German filmmaker in the profile
Harun Farocki - German filmmaker in the profile

Harun Farocki as a public person: prices and awards, teaching activities, aftermath

Harun Farocki has received the "Prize of German Film Critics" , an award presented by the Association of German Film Critics for the best German films that is awarded by film critics:

  • 1969 for "non -extinguished fire"
  • 1989 for “Pictures of the World and Inscription of War”
  • 1991 for "life - FRG"
  • 2010 for "for comparison"
  • In 2003 Farocki's film "Recognizing and watching" distinguished at the Locarno International Film Festival

Personal awards:

  • 1995 Adolf Grimme Prize for retraining
  • 2002 Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum
  • 2006 Herbert Quandt-Medien Prize for the documentary "Not without risk"
  • 2009 Arte documentary film award for his film "Zum comparison"
  • 2009 Wilhelm-Loth Prize 2009
  • 2012 Special Prize for the Roswitha Legal Prize
  • 2015 Special Mention at Biennale Di Venezia 2015

Teaching activities:

  • From 1993 to 1999 Farocki was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley (California),
  • From 2000 he worked as a lecturer at the DFFB and the University of the Arts Berlin
  • Since 2004 he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Farocki's work is immediately present in the circle of filmmakers. From 2011 until his death in July 2014, he worked with Antje Ehmann on the project "A attitude to work" , from 26.02.2015 to 6.04.2015 in the House of the World Cultures in Berlin, the event "An attitude to work | Instructions for life: Harun Farocki about work" took place, with exhibition, conference, workshops.

Posts on the presentations at the conference on Friday, February 27th, 2015:

#1

  • "Film, Architecture, Movement" , Alexander Alberro, art critic and historian, Columbia University, New York;
  • "Two or Three Things I Know About Harun Farocki" , Nora M. Alter, film and media scientist, Temple University, Philadelphia;
  • "Pourquoi Harun" , Raymond Bellour, film and literary scholar, Center National de la research Scientifique, Paris;
  • "Rhetoric of an ignorant teacher" , Christa Blümlinger, film scientist, University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis

#2

  • "The Trouble with Palms" , Filipa César, artist, filmmaker, Berlin;
  • „1978 – 1972 – 1969“, Diedrich Diederichsen, cultural scientist, journalist, Berlin;
  • "War of the Worlds" , Klaus Wyborny, filmmaker, actor, Hamburg;
  • "Map - Matching" , Anselm Franke, curator, author, House of Cultures in the World, Berlin

#3

  • "A ship with teeth, that's for yawn." , Harun Farocki's short documentary films for children, Detlef Gericke-Schönhagen, Head of Goethe Institute, Boston / Vilnius;
  • "My individual workplace" , to Harun Farocki's theory of production, Tom Holert, art historian, publicist, artist, Berlin;
  • "Explode Explosion Eye" , Hito Steyerl, author, artist, Berlin

#4

  • "Work on nature: the forest as a dark chamber, the clearing as a stage" , Christine Lang, filmmaker, cultural scientist, Berlin and Constanze Fame, filmmaker, curator, academy of the visual arts Vienna;
  • "Embarking on Farocki's Infinite Flights of Words in Images" , Doreen Mende, curator, theorist, Berlin;
  • Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar, The Otolith Group, London

Harun Farocki is classified as an essay filmmaker and documentary filmmaker , who influenced many of the subsequent filmmakers through his films and teaching. For example, director Christian Petzold, whom Farocki taught, with whom he also worked. Both have written the screenplays for "internal security" , ghosts "and " Yella " (Petzold's famous" ghost trilogy ") together, as well as the script for their last joint work " Phoenix " from 2014.

"Inner security" received the prize of German film criticism, "Phoenix" 2014 as the best feature film in 2001.

Harun Farocki private

Harun Farocki was born on January 9, 1944 in a neutest, at that time Reichsgau Sudetenland (today Czech: Nový Jicín).

The son of Indian doctor Abdul Qudus Faroqui and his wife Lili, who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s, was called Harun El Usman Faroqhi at the birth and later simplified the name pragmatically.

The family was not based in the neutestritis, Farocki Mother had just been evacuated from Berlin to avoid the bombs of the Allies, and in the post -war period, several moves followed to India and Indonesia until the family finally settled in Hamburg in 1958.

The father opened a surgical practice in Hamburg that brought the family a good life, but the young Farocki rebelled early against the old and went to West Berlin in 1962 (at that time not at 18). There he went through as a Beatnik, caught up with his high school diploma at the evening high school - and in 1966 turned his first three -minute goods for SFB (broadcaster Freise Berlin, predecessor of the RBB).

From 1966 to 1968, Harun Farocki, in the first year of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) .

In 1966 he also married Ursula Lefkes, with whom he got twin girls in 1968.

Ursula Lefkes died in 1996, in 2001 Farocki married his second wife Antje Ehmann, with whom he carried out many joint projects. Farocki died unexpectedly on July 30, 2014 at the age of 70 near Berlin.

Current access to Harun Farocki

At www.harunfarocki.de you will find a lot about the work of Harun Farocki, under the menuzen "films", "installations", "texts", "cooperation", "exhibitions" and "biography".

On the following current or soon starting exhibitions you will find works by Harun Farocki:

Single exhibitions:

  • until March 18, 2018: "Empathy - Harun Farocki" , Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille | France

Group exhibitions:

  • until 05.08. 2018: "Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds" , ZKM. Center for Media Art, Karlsruhe | Germany
  • until 17.03. 2018: "Newwar. It's just a game?", Bandjoun station Art Center | Camera
  • until 08.04. 2018: "Beautiful new worlds. Virtual realities in contemporary art", Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen | Germany
  • until 08.04. 2018: "Please come back. The world as a prison?", Ivam. Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia | Spain
  • until 13.05. 2018: "Faithless Pictures", National Gallery Oslo | Norway
  • 23.03. - 19.08. 2018: "Hello World. Revision of a collection", Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin | Germany
  • 08.03. - 05.05. 2018: "Art of the Revolt / Revolt of Art", Student House Frankfurt | Germany
  • 10.10. 2018 - 03.03. 2019: "The construction of the world (art and economy)", Kunsthalle Mannheim | Germany
  • 17.03. 2018 - 06.01. 2019: "Post Institutional Stress Disorder (PISD)", Kunsthal Aarhus | Denmark
  • 16.05. - 22.07. 2018: "A Study in Scarlett", Frac, Ile-de-France | France
  • 04.04. - 15.07. 2018: "Eastern Sugar", Kunsthalle Bratislava | Slovakia
  • 04.04. - 26.08. 2018: "Faith, love, hope", Kunsthaus Graz | Austria

Harun Farocki is represented worldwide by 5 galleries:

  • Germany: Barbara Weiss Gallery , Berlin
  • France: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris
  • Austria: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg
  • Spain: Angels Barcelona , ​​Barcelona
  • USA: Greene Naftali , New York City, NY

Works by Harun Farocki can be viewed in the public collections of some countries:

  • Germany: New National Gallery Berlin ; Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt ; ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe
  • France: Center Pompidou Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris; Lam Lille Métropole Musée d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art brood , Villeneuve d'Scq
  • Austria: Museum of Modern Salzburg ; MUMOK Museum Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna
  • Spain: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona ; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León ; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Madrid

The more cynic the world, the more in demand the exact look

It is (unfortunately) suspected that the recent, steep career Harun Farockis on the world's best list of artfacts.net

  • 2005 for 330th place
  • 2006 for 290th place
  • 2007 for 210th place
  • 2008 for 190th place
  • 2009 for 150th place
  • 2010 for 110th place
  • 2011 for 75th place
  • 2012 for 75th place
  • 2013 for 50th place
  • 2014 for 30th place
  • 2015 for 24th place
  • 2016 for 23rd place

It has to do with the fact that everything he saw in his films about war madness, racism madness, craving of consumption, economic madness, banking madness and more madness and treated so early.

Take a look at Farocki's films, unfortunately he can no longer ask us to look closely. But it was his goal of life to analyze the power of the pictures for us, and many of his films can not only sharpen our eyes, but are still surprisingly up to date today.

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