Verlag Walthe Herb - Buchhandlung Walther König

19,4 x 25,4 cm, 256 pages,
300 col. and 270 b/w illustrations.
Softcover
English
978-3-86560-587-0
€ ca. 29,80 / chf 49,90
Film
November 2009
Harun Farocki, born 1944 in Novy Jicin
(Neutitschein), Czech Republic,
lives and works in Vienna and Berlin.
Raven Row, London,
19.11.2009– 07.02.2010
Harun Farocki – still available titles /
weiterhin lieferbare Titel:
Nebeneinander. 2007
978-3-86560-286-2
€ 28,– / chf 49,–
herbst / fall 2009
Harun Farocki.
Against What? Against Whom?
Edited by Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun
Foreword by Alex Sainsbury. Texts by Harun Farocki, Michael Baute, James Benning,
Christa Blümlinger, Nicole Brenez, Sabeth Buchmann, Elisabeth Büttner, Alice Creischer,
Diederich Diederichsen, George Didi-Hubermann, Antje Ehmann, Thomas Elsässer,
Tom Holert, Ute Holl, Ruchir Joshi, Thomas Keenan, Klaus Kreimeier, Christian Petzold,
Volker Pantenburg, Bert Rebhandl, Wolfgang Schmitt, Suddhabrata Senggupta, Andreas
Siekmann and Florian Zeyfang
Against What? Against Whom? is a monograph about the author, fi lm maker and
video artist Harun Farocki. It’s the fi rst book about Farocki that is neither a purely
academic publication nor an exhibition catalogue. It brings together the most diverse
of themes, tonalities and approaches: alongside a complete fi lmography and list of
installations, there are 21 contributions that take a discursive (or use drawings to)
look at Farocki’s complex œuvre. Additionally there are two key Farocki texts, previous
refl ections on his fi lm and video work, and a new text he has written especially for this
book, which begins quite biographically and underhandedly becomes a short history of
the making of fi lms and art in (West) Germany over the past 40 years.
The themes discussed are as varied as the authors involved, with much focus on
individual Farocki fi lms, beginning with the early political, Marxist, educational
fi lms, via his cinema direct fi lms and his essay fi lms, that have become classics in the
meantime, up to the fi lms and installations, which for the most make use of found
footage of the most varied types of image, such as amateur recordings, archive pictures,
surveillance images, technical images and computer animations.
Against What? Against Whom? ist eine Monografi e über den Autor, Filmemacher
und Videokünstler Harun Farocki. Es ist das erste Buch über Farocki, das weder eine
rein akademische Publikation noch ein Ausstellungskatalog ist. Es versammelt die
verschiedensten Themen, Tonarten und Herangehensweisen: Neben der kompletten
Filmografi e und Liste der Installationen gibt es 21 Beiträge, die sich diskursiv (oder mit
Zeichnungen) dem komplexen Œuvre Farockis nähern.
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