Aufstellung

Overview

The diagrams used to help represent consumer shopping baskets, the pensions deficit or migration are anachronistic, Farocki posits; Whether pictographs or simple bar or pie charts, their abstractions all display an impotence of information. ""Examples of diagrams gleaned from newspapers, school text books and official publications are [...] the history of migration in the Federal Republic of Germany. What we are seeking, therefore, is a conceptual critique of the ways in which migration is presented, pursuing the icons and symbols back to their origins and examining them with regard to content they themselves are unaware of."" -HF

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 2005

Original language

German

Countries

Germany

Production

Harun Farocki Filmproduktion

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2479094