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# 59
Watch and Learn
Bani Khoshnoudi
“In our hands they must become weapons … ”
— Harun Farocki, The Words of the Chairman , 1967.
Using controlled methods, sometimes even irony, Farocki takes apart over and over again, piece by piece, our place as victim as well as culprit in this age where the image is loaded like a gun. It is a rage that is not violent, yet clearly spoken, and which is resting behind Farocki’s camera, not necessarily front and center on the screen. Demonstrating, describing, pointing…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2014
Category
Image, Film
Subjects
Libraries & Archives, Video Art, Experimental Film, Police & Prisons