Farocki's pioneering films will screen in Glasgow as a satellite event to Cooper Gallery, Dundee's major Farocki exhibition
Join us for a special screening of German artist and filmmaker Harun Farocki’s films curated for the Goethe-Institut Glasgow by artist and curator Antje Ehmann and Cooper Gallery Director and Principal Curator Sophia Yadong Hao. Farocki developed a pioneering style of filmmaking building on the social criticism of Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Luc Godard, and the Frankfurt School theorist Theodor Adorno. In
Workers Leaving the Factory, for instance, flashes of iconic images appear such as the workers leaving the Lumière factory in the first moving image from 1895, and several seconds of Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin; these fragments of the cinematic past tell a nonlinear story of cinema, not so much about technological development as our enthrallment to and emotional investment in the cinematic image. From his early anti-Vietnam films made in the political crucible of the 1960s to the
Serious Games series, Farocki self-reflexively turns to images to explore the invisible systems in which our lives are entangled, such as capitalism, the mediascape, and war. Images thus are not so much representations of but also interventions that create worlds in and of themselves.
This film screening has been cocurated by Antje Ehmann and Sophia Yadong Hao, who will be joined by artists Gair Dunlop and Pernille Spence for a screening and discussion on March 29 at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow of the films created as part of the Labour in a Single Shot workshop led by Dunlop and Spence in Dundee, in close consultation with Antje Ehmann.
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