Harun Farocki: Nachdruck / Imprint – Texte / Writings (2001) [DE/EN]

“This book brings together a selection of writings produced by Harun Farocki between 1977 and 1999. They provide an insight into Farocki’s filmic work and its underlying querying of the status, production, and perception of images conveyed technically and through media. As a critical observer of political and cultural events, Farocki reveals the images’ hidden content in his films and writings, freeing them from the detritus of the encoding with which they have been covered in the course of their development, their use in various media and subsequent reception. Farocki’s deconstructive reflections establish new standards not only for the aesthetics of film but for visual art as well.”

Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of Harun Farocki at the Westfälischer Kunstverein and Filmclub Münster, June-August 2001.

Edited by Susanne Gänsheimer and Nicolaus Schafhausen
Introduction by Volker Pantenburg
English translation by Laurent Faasch-Ibrahim
Publisher Vorwerk 8, Berlin, and Lukas & Sternberg, New York, 2001
ISBN 393091641X, 9783930916412
323 pages
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William C. Wees: Recycled Images: The Art and Politics of Found Footage Films (1993)

An important film-theoretical work, especially significant for its attempt to delimit the phenomenon of found footage film.

Includes condensed commentary from author’s 1991 informal interviews with North American filmmakers who have made extensive use of found footage: Craig Baldwin, Abigail Child, Bruce Conner, David Rimmer, Keith Sanborn, Chick Strand, and Leslie Thornton.

Published in conjuction with the Anthology Film Archives’ May 1993 survey of found footage and collage films.

Publisher Anthology Film Archives, New York City, 1993
ISBN 0911689192, 9780911689198
117 pages
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Commentary: Pierre Rannou (Esse, 2008).

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PDF (32 MB)

Peter Rist, Timothy Barnard (eds.): South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994 (1996)

“A team of contributors has compiled entries on 140 significant South American feature and documentary films from the silent era until 1994. The entries discuss each film’s subject matter, critical reception, and social and political contexts, as well as its production, distribution, and exhibition history, including technical credits.”

Publisher Garland Publishing, New York and London, 1996
ISBN 0824045742, 9780824045746
xx+405 pages

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