VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s Goethe Institute will introduce four shorts of popular video artist Harun Farocki on Friday evening and August 22 at the institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street.

The selected short films deal with labor in “Workers leaving the factory”, war in “Pictures of the World and Inscriptions of War”, and in “Inextinguishable Fire”) and consumer society in “Still life”.

Farocki will discuss with the audience which visual language he found to depict these topics after the final screening on August 22.

The German studied from 1966 to 1968 at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (West).

Since 1966 he has made over 100 productions for television, cinema, children’s programs, documentaries, film essays, feature films and he has given numerous group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries.

Farocki has also worked as a film critic and scriptwriter, has directed plays and been a university professor.

Admission is free.    

Source: SGT