• The Taste of Life

    For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you could see young people standing with their bicycles on street corners …

  • On Display: Peter Weiss

    We were visiting Peter Weiss in Stockholm on 17th and 18th June 1979. We talked about his work on the book "The Aesthetics of Resistance". Two volumes have already been published and P.W. is currently on the third …

  • Single. A Record is Being Produced

    "Single" is not a theoretical treatise; it just uses clips to show how a single is produced. The song is "Time to Love", the singers call themselves Witchcraft. Also involved are the composer, arranger, producer, the studio musicians …

  • Anna and Lara are Playing Television

    My daughters were eleven years old at the time. They sat down behind a television set without a tube and played out the news, weather, shows and commercials. This film is now missing, which makes me very sad …

  • Industry and Photography

    Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a question of having power over the image or a consistent subject-position towards the image …