Light Industry
177 Livingston Street
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Images of the World and the Inscription of War
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Tuesday Mar 23, 2010 (7:30pm)
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$7
“Made nearly a half-century after those crucial topographic photographs of Auschwitz were shot, Farocki's incisive film essay also ties in France's push in the 1960s to snap veil-less Algerian women for identity cards. Jumping between and piling up images and theories, the German filmmaker offers plenty to debate in his exploration of truth and intent.”
Jason Jude Chan, Flavorpill
Light Industry says:
Harun Farocki’s Images of the World and the Inscription of War is unquestionably one of the most influential, quoted and urgent essay films of the past twenty years. By turns curious and furious, the film examines aerial photographs of Auschwitz taken by American bombers searching for targets like munitions factories and chemical plants used to fuel the Nazi war efforts. Somehow the long, sinewy lines of people huddled before gas chambers went unseen. Rather, they were not what the CIA was looking for and were therefore left unexamined and unidentified. The photographs were promptly filed away, only to be unearthed thirty years later. Probing these documents and juxtaposing them with photographs taken by the Nazis, as well as images illustrated by Alfred Kantor, a camp prisoner, Farocki weaves together a sharp, provocative, and multi-layered refutation of photographic reality, using many other tangents that build upon his argument in ways unconventional and intuitive. - Cinematheque Ontario
