The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television
Refreshingly, Farocki lays his cards on the table at the very beginning of the film, "I want to demonstrate that most feature films are of the sort that make people lose their interest and appetite for the real world" …
Someday you will love me too. About the meaning of Dimestore Novels
The feature "Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben" tells two kinds of stories: events from the lives of people one could describe as readers of dime novels (a manual laborer, an art-metalworker and locksmith, a sales representative …
Brunner is Next
I had intended that each of the roughly 60 shots would be static, without even the imperceptible correction pans normally used in such cases. Every shot was to be a tangent, of which one must put an infinite number around a circle …
Make Up
The make-up artist Serge Lutens is shown covering a model's face with powder then working it into her face over several minutes. The face becomes a canvas, primed for painting …
Sesame Street
The editors we worked with had ideology on the brain; we had studied – well, let's call it didactics ourselves. In addition, the American producers had a very strict policy, so that one had to put an incredible amount of work into …
