Cinema in the museum

With the kind support of the Deutsche Kinemathek, they are presenting Harun Farocki's "Images of the World and Inscriptions of War" (1988), a documentary film or essay film about perception, enlightenment, and representation.


Short description:

An "essay film" that explores the connection between perception and industrial production in historical discourses: it traces photography and the exploitation of images, and asks how the war has become inscribed in the images we form of the world. It focuses on a photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp, taken on April 4, 1944, from an altitude of 7,000 meters by an American bomber.

It was not retrieved from the archives and evaluated until 33 years later. At that time, the death factory of Auschwitz was not discovered because there was no mandate to search for it. A film as ambitious as it is fascinating, it aims to capture the viewer's attention without directing it.

Source: Filmdienst


The film will be shown in German with English subtitles.