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Harun Farocki «I thought I was seeing convicts» | Ich glaubte, Gefangene zu sehen
Harun Farocki, «I thought I was seeing convicts», 2000
Ich glaubte, Gefangene zu sehen | Filmstill | © Harun Farocki
 


 
 
Germany | 25' | Concept: Harun Farocki | Participants: Cathy Lee Crane; Luis Van Rooki; Max Reimann | Edition / Production: Harun Farocki Filmproduktion, Berlin; Generali Foundation, Wien; with support from 3 sat, Mainz
 

 Harun Farocki

b 1944 in Nový Jicin (CZ), in German-annexed Czechoslovakia. 1966–1968: attended the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (D); after teaching posts in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, Munich and Stuttgart Farocki took up a visiting professorship at the University of California, Berkeley from 1993–1999; since 2000 professor at the Universität der Künste in Berlin (D). Farocki is considered to be one of the most important artists of contemporary film and documentary. He has made close to 90 films, including three feature films, essay films and documentaries; in the 1990s he began to work with video installations as well. His topics are mostly political, archival and theoretical issues of the contemporary society. Lives and works in Berlin.