HaFI 005_Harun Farocki: Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
Commentary, Document, Material
Edited by Tom Holert

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A hybrid attempt at coming to terms with a specific instance of amnesia amongst the West German left in the late 1970s/early 1980s, Harun Farocki’s 1982 feature film BEFORE YOUR EYES – VIETNAM combines ideas about the distant, image-guided participation in the war in Vietnam with speculations on Vietnam as a laboratory of advanced modes of capitalist production, whilst reflecting intensely on the dyad of love and work.

Cinema / Photography, Contemporary Art
Description
This publication assembles selected material produced in 1982 to promote the film and make it accessible discursively. It includes the facsimile of a promotional leaflet that provided both factual information and directions for reading, a selection of unseen photos from the set and from a tiny piece of film (excavated from the archives of the Harun Farocki Institut) documenting a performative trailer held on an improvised stage by Farocki and actor Ronny Tanner during the Berlin Film Festival in 1982. The brochure is introduced by a commentary penned by the Harun Farocki Institut.
Author

Tom Holert is an art historian, writer and curator. In 2015 he cofounded the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin, a platform for research and production based on and departing from Farocki's example.

48 pages
Paperback, 21x29.7 cm
German, English
Harun Farocki Institut, 1st edition 2017
ISBN 9782940524679