War at a Distance + Serious Games 1-4
Harun Farocki is one of the leading figures of the film-essai movement in recent decades. His ambitious cinema takes viewers on an in-depth journey into the history of moving images and media, offering a sometimes scathing analysis of them. His approach goes beyond cinema, embracing literature and the visual arts. This cycle concludes with the opening lecture of a symposium dedicated to the filmmaker on the tenth anniversary of his death.
With the help of archival and original images, Farocki sets out to define the relationship between military strategy and industrial production and sheds light on how the technology of war finds applications in everyday life. (Antje Ehmann)
Film versions of four installations, the Serious Games series looks at the use of virtual reality and video games in the recruitment, training and therapy of soldiers. Farocki shows how the US Army uses fictional scenarios on virtual reality games to prepare for troop deployment and to provide psychological care for soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Harun Farocki
Born Harun Faroqhi in 1944 in Neutitschein, Bohemia-Moravia (in today's Czech Republic), to an Indian immigrant father and a German mother, Farocki grew up between India and Indonesia in the post-war period, before his family relocated to Germany in the late 1950s. Influenced by Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adorno and Jean-Luc Godard, he studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and began directing his first films in the 1960s. From the outset, he turned to essays, experimental documentaries and installations, constantly questioning the political weight of images. He was also editor of the journal Filmkritik, and taught at the University of California in Berkeley, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
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