Farocki made close to 120 short and feature-length films for television and cinema, mostly documentaries and essay films that analyzed social realities, with a precise use of moving images and focus on the political and sociological context involved in the creation of imagery. In addition to teaching posts in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, Munich, and Stuttgart, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1966 to 1968, he attended the Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). Read more on the on the program, times, and participants here.įor more information, contact Farocki (1944–2014) was born in German-annexed Czechoslovakia. This edition of Staff Picks also coincides with the inauguration of Aesthetics of Resistance: Straub-Huillet and Contemporary Moving-Image Art, a four-part series of screenings and discussions at e-flux Screening Room inspired by the works of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Presented on e-flux Video & Film as the December 2022 edition of Staff Picks. Farocki filmed a work of resistance against traditional cinema, against which his own films rebel.

Straub manages his actors like a theater director.The very fact that it is unusual among filmmakers makes it well worth having captured Straub's working methods on film. Anyone who has seen Farocki's documentary of the shoot will never forget these short scenes.The directing technique of Jean-Marie Straub and his wife Daniele Huillet is so repetitive and detail-obsessed that the performers are made to rehearse the scenes to the point of exhaustion.

Farocki's admiration for Straub was so great that he said of Between Two Wars: “Perhaps I only made this film to earn Straub's recognition.” In this observation-driven film Farocki documents the fulfillment of his wish.The film shows Farocki, under Straub's direction, rehearsing for his role as Delamarche in the film Klassenverhältnisse ( Class Relations, 1983). This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

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