SOMETHING BECOMES VISIBLE
A molecular seminar on/with Harun Farocki
     

READINGS / SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Serious Games
Harun Farocki
Erkennen und verfolgen (War at a Distance) 2003

INTRODUCTORY TEXTS

Thomas Elsaesser, “Political Filmmaking after Brecht: Harun Farocki, For Example,” in Working on the Sightlines, ed. Thomas Elsaesser, 133–153.

Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun, “A to Z of HF or: 26 Introductions to HF,” in Harun Farocki, ed. Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun, 204–216.

Harun Farocki, “Written Trailers,” in Harun Farocki, ed. Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun, 220–241.

Jan Verwoert, "Production Pattern Association: On the work of Harun Farocki" Afterall 11, (Spring/Summer 2005)

Hal Foster, “Vision Quest: the Cinema of Harun Farocki,” Artforum (November 2004).

Coco Fusco, “Regarding History,” Frieze 127 (November-December 2009).

 

ON SPECIFIC FILMS

On Videograms of a Revolution

Benjamin Young, “Media and Democratic Politics: Videograms of a Revolution,” in Working on the Sightlines, ed. Thomas Elsaesser, 245–260.

Thomas Keenan, “Pan to the Sky If Anything Unexpected Occurs,” in Transmission Interrupted, ed. Suzanne Cotter and Gilane Tawadros, exh. cat. (Oxford: Modern Art Oxford, 2009), 2–5.

Eva Kernbauer, “Establishing Belief: Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Videograms of a RevolutionGrey Room 41 (Fall 2010): 72–87.

On Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Harun Farocki, “Reality Would Have to Begin,” in Imprint/Nachdruck, 186–213.

Thomas Keenan, “Light Weapons,” in Working on the Sightlines, ed. Thomas Elsaesser, 203–210.

Kaja Silverman, Threshold of the Visible World (New York: Routledge, 1996), 136–161.

Nora M. Alter, “The Political Im/perceptible: Images of the World . . . ,” in Working on the Sightlines, ed. Thomas Elsaesser, 211–234.

On Workers Leaving the Factory
Harun Farocki, “Workers Leaving the Factory,” in Imprint/Nachdruck, 230–247.

On How to Live in the FRG
Harun Farocki, “How to Live in the FRG,” in Harun Farocki, ed. Ehmann and Eshun, 163–165.

On Inextinguishable Fire
Georges Didi-Huberman, “How to Open Your Eyes,” in Harun Farocki, ed. Ehmann and Eshun, 38–50.

On Respite
Thomas Elsaesser, “Holocaust Memory as the Epistemology of Forgetting? Re-wind and Postponement in Respite,” in Harun

 


BOOKS BY HARUN FAROCKI

Imprint: Writings / Nachdruck: Texte, ed. Susanne Gaensheimer and Nicolaus Schafhausen (New York: Lukas & Sternberg; Berlin: Vorwerk 8, 2001).

With Kaja Silverman, Speaking about Godard (New York: New York University Press, 1998).

ANTHOLOGIES ON HARUN FAROCKI'S WORK

Working on the Sightlines, ed. Thomas Elsaesser, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004).

Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom? ed. Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun, exh. cat. (London: Raven Row / Koenig Books, 2009).
Includes up-to-date filmography and list of installation work.