German with English subtitles
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Schnittstelle (Section/Interface)
Dir. Harun Farocki, Germany, 1995, 23 min., color and b/w, German with English subtitles. Digital.
Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video “about his work”.
His creation was an installation for two screens that was presented within the scope for the 1995 exhibition “The World of Photography”. The film Schnittstelle developed out of that installation.
Reflecting on Farocki’s own documentary work, it examines the question of what it means to work with existing images rather than producing one’s own, new images.
The tile plays on the double meaning of “Schnitt”, referring both to Farocki’s workplace, the editing table, as well as the “human-machine interface“, where a person operates a computer using a keyboard and a mouse.
(3sat, September 1995) Source:www.farocki-film.de

Zum Vergleich (In Comparison)
Dir. Harun Farocki, Germany, 2009, 61 min., color, no dialogue with English intertitles. Digital.
Bricks are the resonating fundamentals of society.
Bricks are layers of clay that sound, like records, just simply too thick. Like records they appear in series, but every brick is slightly different—not just another brick in the wall.
Bricks create spaces, organize social relations and store knowledge on social structures. They resonate in a way that tells us if they are good enough or not.
Bricks form the fundamental sound of our societies, but we haven’t learned to listen to them.
Through different traditions of brick production Farocki’s film has our eyes and ears consider them in comparison—and not in competition, not as clash of cultures.
Farocki shows us various brick production sites in their colors, movements and sounds. The firing, carrying and laying of bricks, is captured on film. Without narration, 20 inter-titles in 60 minutes tell us something about the temporality of working processes. T
he film shows us that certain production modes require their own duration and that cultures differentiate around the time of the brick.
(Ute Holl) Source:www.farocki-film.de

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