jwtorrent in kg wrote:
OK, here's another Farocki film. As You See is maybe the closest one of his films that I have seen to Images of the World, at least in terms of format. It even has the same narrator.
The next Farocki film I upload will probably be "Etwas Wird Sichtbar" or "Zwischen Zwei Krieges". Both are in German and don't have subtitles, so I haven't actually watched either. I'm hoping maybe that some kind German speaking soles will take an interest in making subtitles for the rest of us. I've already talked to one KG member who might make an attempt. Getting subs made will definitely be an encouragement for me to upload the other one as well as "Bilder Des Krieges".
NOTE: The video starts abruptly. Thats the way that the origional tape that I had access to was. It had no leader for some reason.
In As You See, Farocki searches for those instances and facts in the history of technology that have been overlooked or ignored, also exploring the ambivalent relationship between technologies developed for civil use and those designed for military purposes.
Thus the film for instance describes how in the 1970's workers at the British arms factory Lucas Aerospace attempted to develop socially useful products to replace the company's military output.
Rather than following a linear argument, this essay-film juxtaposes disparate images and weaves them into a mosaic-like structure which makes it possible for the viewers to make their own connections between the different images as well as between the images and the commentary.
My film As You See is an action-filled feature film. It reflects upon girls in porn magazines to whom names are ascribed and about the nameless dead in mass graves, upon machines that are so ugly that coverings have to be used to protect the workers' eyes, upon engines that are too beautiful to be hidden under the hoods of cars, upon labor techniques that either cling to the notion of the hand and the brain working together or want to do away with it.
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki - As you See (1986).avi 
Much thank to jwtorrent @ KG
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