January 2020: Digitization from Harun Farocki Institut
Between 2016 and 2019 we digitized the following film and video materials from the archive of the Harun Farocki Institut:
RONNY AND HARUN ACT UP (1982)
6 min
16mm reversal film, color, magnetic tape
2K digitization, October 2016
Documentation of a performance from the trailer made for BEFORE YOUR EYES – VIETNAM. It took place in the foyer of the Delphi-Theater on the occasion of the screening of the film at the Berlinale Forum. Actors: Ronny Tanner and Harun Farocki.
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ON DISPLAY: PETER WEISS (1979)
62 min
16mm, b/w, magnetic tape
2K digitization, October 2016
Film shooting in Stockholm. Unused interview material from ON DISPLAY: PETER WEISS.
In conversation: Peter Weiss and Harun Farocki.
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HARD SELLING (1991)
21/22 min (two slightly differing versions)
S-VHS, colour, sound
digitization, September 2017
An unfinished film by Farocki from 1991. Farocki travels through Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with Adidas representative Klaus Glahn. Car trips through the “new states,” talks between Farocki and Glahn in the car, visits of chain stores by the salesman, who is supposed to build up a network of retailers after the fall of the wall.
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CONVERSATION WITH GISELA TROWE (ca. 1983)
14 min
16mm reversal, color, magnetic tape
2K digitization, April 2018
Gisela Trowe played a small role in Peter Lorre’s film THE LOST ONE. For the WDR production THE DOUBLE FACE OF PETER LORRE (1984) Farocki and Felix Hofmann filmed a conversation with her. The material was not used in the finished programme.
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SCREEN TESTS: BEFORE YOUR EYES – VIETNAM (ca. 1980)
16 min
16mm, s/w, magnetic tape
2K digitization, June 2019
Actresses and an actor rehearsing for the film BEFORE YOUR EYES – VIETNAM (1982).
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IMAGES/HISTORIES (ca. 1987)
Shooting of “Images of the world and inscription of war”
20 min
16mm reversal, colour, magnetic tape
2K digitization, October 2019
A group of school children visits the museum collection of antiquities. Under the guidance of a museum educator, a blind girl describes two statues – one made of bronze, one of marble. The material was presumably shot for IMAGES-WAR (1987) and IMAGES OF THE WORLD AND THE INSCRIPTION OF WAR (1988), but was not used in the finished film.
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The digitization work made between 2017 and 2019 was realized within the framework of Archive außer sich, a project of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of The New Alphabet, a HKW project supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media due to a ruling of the German Bundestag.