Helke sander and harun farocki, discourse 7 spring 1985, pp 95120. Filmmaker, artist, media theorist thomas elsaesser. Thomas elsaesser is professor emeritus of cinema studies at. An interview with harun farocki, elsaesser comments that as a writer for filmkritik, farocki had written appreciations for filmmakers as diverse as jeanluc godard and robert bresson that stylistically, seem to be irreconcible, to which he responds, but bertold brecht and. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. With a penetrating and critical intelligence farocki probes ambiguities as well as deceptions, revealing both actions taken and the way actions are predetermined by social practices. Harun farocki was once described by thomas elsaesser as probably germanys bestknown important filmmaker, after labouring for years as germanys bestknown unknown filmmaker. Two or three things not known about harun farocki, monthly film bulletin, no. Harun farocki the future of art and work in the age of vision machines. His grandfather, martin elsaesser, was an architect, an urban planner, and one of the central subjects of the one film thomas elsaesser wrote and directed, the sun island 2017.
Thomas elsaesser in conversation with alexander alberro alexander alberro. German cinema terror and trauma by thomas elsaesser, 9780415709262, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. This publication attempts to map the visual approach of one of germanys foremost documentary filmmakers, harun farocki born 1944. To keep his work as a filmmaker and artist, and as an author and teacher, alive and also to make it available anew as a resource to a younger generation, sabeth buchmann and constanze ruhm, in cooperation with jens kastner, have devised a comprehensive series of lectures and events. Born in berlin, elsaesser grew up in a family of cinephiles. Steingrover eds, after the avantgarde contemporary german and austrian experimental film rochester. I also edited and coedited some twelve volumes on early cinema, quality television, digital cinema, harun farocki, new hollywood cinema. French, italian, czech, hebrew, hungarian, korean, chinese, japanese and lithuanian. An introduction, senses of cinema 21 july 2002 rainer werner fassbinder. In the summer of 1976, i spent time in berlin researching a book on new german. Thomas elsaesser is professor emeritus of cinema studies at amsterdam university and since 20 visiting professor at columbia university. Talking to patrice petro during the society for cinema and media studies scms conference in 2014, elsaesser recalled going to the movies as a.
This seminal essay film considers the technology of photography and the mediation of the world through images, as intertwined with militarized mechanisms of surveillance, measurement and. Tributes to thomas elsaesser the current the criterion. His latest book is european cinema and continental thought london. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Harun farocki art monographs and museum exhibition catalogs. In 1963 elsaesser left germany for the united kingdom. He was the writer and director of the sun island, a documentary essay film about his grandfather, the architect martin elsaesser. Thomas elsaesser 22 june 1943 4 december 2019 was a german film historian and professor of film and television studies at the university of amsterdam. For more than thirty years farocki has been a filmmaker, documentarist, film essayist. Passage of dialogue by robert from before your eyes vietnam. Harun farocki, controlling observation, originally published in jungle world, no.
Harun farocki examines, from different critical perspectives, his vast. Countering the death of cinema debate, film history as media archaeology presents a robust argument for the cinemas current status as a new epistemological object, of interest to philosophers, while also examining the presence of moving images in the museum and art spaces as a challenge for art history. Working the sightlines film culture in transition 9789053566350. July 30, 2017, is the third anniversary of harun farockis passing. More than 1 million books in pdf, epub, mobi, tuebl and audiobook formats. Over the thirtyplus 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.
Since 20 he is also visiting professor at columbia university. He has authored, edited and coedited some 20 volumes on early cinema, film theory, european cinema, hollywood, new media and installation art. Harun farocki, working on the sightlines by forum lenteng issuu. This book is the result of the exhibition harun farocki. Jan, blumlinger, christa, leder, dietrich, reichenbach, benedikt. Thomas elsaesser has 52 books on goodreads with 2140 ratings. Elsaesser moved to great britain to study in 1963, which became his adopted home for many years. Art historian alexander alberro and film theorist thomas elsaesser will discuss the impact of harun farocki s work, and introduce a screening of the 1988 film images of the world and the inscription of war. Discover book depositorys huge selection of thomas elsaesser books online. I knew farocki as a critic, from the articles he wrote for filmkritik, but had not seen any of his films. Writing about harun farocki is nothing unusual for me. Thomas elsaesser is professor emeritus at the department of media and culture of the university of amsterdam. Thomas elsaesser, it started with these images some notes on political filmmaking after brecht in germany. For more than thirty years farocki has been a filmmaker, documentarist, filmessayist.
Art historian alexander alberro and film theorist thomas elsaesser will discuss the impact of harun farockis work, and introduce a screening of the 1988 film images of the world and the inscription of war. Text by thomas elsaesser, maren grimm, jan verwoert, christa blumlinger, dietrich leder, ute holl, benedikt reichenbach, matthias rajmann, hila peleg, anselm franke. This seminal essay film considers the technology of photography and the mediation of the world through images, as intertwined with. Talking to patrice petro during the society for cinema and media studies scms conference in 2014, elsaesser recalled going to the movies as a teenager. Thomas elsaesser is professor emeritus in the department of media and culture at the university of amsterdam and since 20 visiting professor at columbia university.
Subscribe to senses of cinema to receive news of our latest cinema journal. That is a long while ago, and it confirms that harun farocki has been around. Born in 1943 in berlin, thomas elsaesser was german by birth, and yet truly a citizen of the world. He also dedicated much attention to the work of filmmakers such as rainer werner fassbinder and harun farocki. In defining farockis overarching approach to the filmic essay, thomas elsaesser writes that, with farocki the act of documenting the contemporary world is guided also by different kinds of authorship, different strategies of probing and testing, and an agency that is at once forensic and pedagogic. Thomas elsaesser and harun farocki this interview was conducted after a screening of images of the world and the inscription of war at the national film theatremomi london, 6 february 1993. Harun farocki museum exhibition catalogues, monographs, artists projects, curatorial writings and essays. Dec 25, 2017 in the thomas elsaesser interview, making the world superfluous. The cultural mode of production, thomas elsaesser, new german cinema a history new brunswick. Randall halle and sabine czylwik, history is not a matter of generations. Wildcard searching if you want to search for multiple variations of a word, you can substitute a special symbol called a wildcard for one or more letters. Filmmaker, film essayist, installation artist, writer. His book on fritz langs metropolis remains the work of reference, and his movie sonneninsel 2017 about the history of his family and the connections to reformer leberecht migge marked his departure as a film director and film writer.
He is the author of five books and numerous essays on almost all aspects of german cinema, as well as books on rainer werner fassbinder and harun farocki. S ince friday, when news of the sudden and entirely unexpected death of thomas elsaesser was still too fresh to process, weve seen a fair number of tributes to this vital figure in the fields of film and media studies. In the thomas elsaesser interview, making the world superfluous. Thomas elsaesser is a film historian and theorist living in amsterdam. Thomas elsaesser in transition film culture film farocki harun working on the sightlines edited by harun farocki thomas elsaesser ed. Phrase searching you can use double quotes to search for a series of words in a particular order. Thomas elsaessers most popular book is film theory. In the summer of 1976, i spent time in berlin researching a book on new german cinema, interviewing as many filmmakers as i could, but also critics. In this monograph the first critical publication on farocki in english leading scholars from the united states, france and germany assess his work from differing perspectives, bringing to bear a. Images from ten films 9783863354596 by farocki, harun. Harun farocki in filmkritik edited by rainer knepperges. Thomas elsaesser s most popular book is film theory. I first met him while researching my book on new german cinema. Over the thirtyplus years of his career, farocki has explored not the images of life but rather the life of images that surrounds.
If i remember right, i had an introduction through one of his. In a series of case studies, which consider the work of konrad wolf, alexander kluge, rainer werner fassbinder, herbert achterbusch and harun farocki, as well as films made in the new century, elsaesser tracks the different ways the holocaust is present in german cinema from the 1950s onwards, even when it is absent, or referenced in oblique. Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Harun farocki, working on the sightlines by forum lenteng. Interview with harun farocki, camera obscura 46 2000. For example, world war ii with quotes will give more precise results than world war ii without quotes.
Farocki cites rem koolhaass book the harvard guide to shopping as. The grandson of the architect martin elsaesser, he spent his childhood in upper franconia and in 1951 moved with his family to mannheim, where from 1955 to 1962 he attended a humanist gymnasium, before studying english and german literature at the ruprechtkarl university in heidelberg. Rutgers university press, 1989, 4073 the author in the film. Working on the sightlines amsterdam university press, 2004. Working on the sightlines amsterdam university press, 2004 379 pp.
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