Still Life (Harun Farocki, 1997) VEng

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Harun Farocki
Stilleben, 1997
(Naturaleza muerta / Still Life)

Another film-essay by one of today's greatest german filmmakers
Stilleben (Harun Farocki, Eng Narration, 1997).avi

Just as seventeenth-century paintings portrayed the things of everyday life—food, drink, tableware—as still life, in today’s advertising industry, a great expenditure of money and effort and a high degree of specialization are put into producing photos of goods. The aim is that the various potential interpretations will make it possible for one to project the ideas of art history onto advertising and to notice the differences, and on the other hand, also see such still life pictures in a different light once this strange, cultic expenditure is transferred to the holy act of realizing art. (Harun Farocki)

This is the english narration version of this Farocki's film. Here the specs and some random "stills":










Stilleben (Harun Farocki, Eng Narration, 1997).avi