Section: Retrospective

DIE WORTE DES VORSITZENDEN

THE WORDS OF THE CHAIRMAN

Harun Farocki
FRG, 1967, 3 Min
Anke Hahn

The film takes up the challenge of turning Mao Tse-tung’s words into weapons, literally, and launches a page from the “Mao Bible”. A didactic play; part declaration of war, part self-depreciation.

Filmformat
16mm | s/w / b/w
Drehbuch
Harun Farocki
Kamera
Holger Meins
Darsteller
Harun Farocki, Ursula Lefkes, Christiane Schily
Produktion
DFFB
Kontakt
Anke Hahn
Filmverleih
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Potsdamer Str. 2
10785 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49.30.300 903 32
Fax: +49.30.300 903 13
ahahn@deutsche-kinemathek.de

Harun Farocki - born 1944 in Neutitschein (today Nový Jičín, Czech Republik). Studied at the dffb from 1966 to 1968. Freelance filmmaker and media artist. Lecturer in California, Vienna and Berlin since 1993.

Movies
DER WAHLHELFER (1967, short)
DIE ROTE FAHNE (1968, doc)
PLAKATMALER (1974, doc, tv)
EIN BILD (1983, short, doc)
WORTE UND SPIELE (1998, doc)
AUFSCHUB (2007, doc)

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