Eine Sache, die sich versteht (15x)

Filmstill Something Self Explanatory (15x)

Something Self Explanatory (15x)

Eine Sache, die sich versteht (15x)
Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky
Retrospective
Documentary Film
FRG
1971
64 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English
No Premiere

This Marxist education offensive cast into actions and images is part of a bigger cycle of so-called educational films that, following Bertolt Brecht’s concept of the didactic experimental play, use lucid illustration to fill abstract terms with practical meaning. In fifteen learning unites, Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitomsky address the basic concepts of Karl Marx’s main political work, “Capital”, discussing a section that, according to their own statements, they do not consider self explanatory. “The intention is to make a person who is walking think about walking so that he falls down,” as the two filmmakers noted about their project. It remains to be seen whether such a fall also makes the penny drop among the audience.


Sylvia Görke

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31.10.
#473
Passage Kinos Wintergarten
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31.10.2024
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#473
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Director
Harun Farocki, Hartmut Bitomsky
Cinematographer
David Slama, Carlos Bustamante
Editor
Hasso Nagel
Producer
Larabel Film Harun Farocki
Sound
Johannes Beringer

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