Industry and Photography

Overview

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, which would allow the filmmaker access to complete knowledge. Instead he insists on pursuing photography's separation of reference and discourse, by proving this to be a separation of the subject as well as a separation within the subject itself. [...] - Thomas Elsaesser

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 3, 1979

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Director

Harun Farocki

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0417781