Film screening| HOMMAGE À HARUN FAROCKI
Organized by Rémy Besson and Philippe Despoix (Centre de recherches intermédiales) and Regine Strätling (Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes), in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and the Cinémathèque Québécoise, we present selected films by Harun Farocki. He is considered an important representative of German experimental and documentary film. This year would not only have been Harun Farocki's 80th birthday, July 30, 2024 also marks the tenth anniversary of his death.
Still Life
Stilleben
Harun Farocki
Germany, 1997, 56 min, video, original with french subtitles
According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from everyday life – the "still life". The filmmaker illustrates this intriguing hypothesis with three documentary sequences which show the photographers at work creating a contemporary "still life": a cheese-board, beer glasses and an expensive watch.
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Harun Farocki
Germany Austria, 2009, 61 min, video, INTA-STF
This handsome 16mm colour film, which will have its North American premiere in Toronto, is a deceptively contemplative documentary about contemporary brick production.
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