Nine Minutes In The Yard: A Conversation With Harun Farocki

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction
4. Harun Farocki: Filmmaker, Artist, Media Theorist 11
5. Image In(ter)ventions
6. Painting Pavements 43
7. Images And Thoughts, People And Things, Materials And Methods 55
8. Incisive Divides And Revolving Images: On The Installation Schnittstelle 61
9. Filming As Writing, Writing As Filming, Staking One’S Life
10. Passage Along The Shadow-Line: Feeling One’S Way Towards The Filmkritik-Style 69
11. The Green Of The Grass: Harun Farocki In Filmkritik 77
12. Staking One’S Life: Images Of Holger Meins 83
13. Between Wars, Between Images
14. Working At The Margins: Film As A Form Of Intelligence 95
15. Dog From The Freeway 109
16. Political Filmmaking After Brecht: Harun Farocki, For Example 133
17. Documenting The Life Of Ideas? – Farocki And The ‘Essay Film
18. The Road Not Taken: Films By Harun Farocki 157
19. Slowly Forming A Thought While Working On Images 163
20. Making The World Superfluous: An Interview With Harun Farocki 177
21. Images Of The World And The Inscription Of War
22. Reality Would Have To Begin 193
23. Light Weapons 203
24. The Political Im/Perceptible: Farocki’S Images Of The World And The Inscription Of War 211
25. Film: Media: Work: Archive
26. Workers Leaving The Factory 237
27. On Media And Democratic Politics: Videograms Of A Revolution 245
28. Towards An Archive For Visual Concepts 261
29. From The Surveillance Society To The Control Society
30. Controlling Observation 289
31. Nine Minutes In The Yard: A Conversation With Harun Farocki 297
32. Harun Farocki: Critical Strategies 315
33. Acknowledgements 323
34. Farocki: A Filmography 325
35. Notes On Contributors 363
36. Index Of Names 367
37. Index Of Films / Subjects 375