Stilleben / Still Life - by Harun Farocki (1997)

Film - documentary of the famous German experimenter Harun Farocki.
In a parallel installation replace each other classic painting still life XVI, XVII centuries, and documentary footage from the photo studio of the nineties. Pictures and ads: the image of money, cheese, beer, drawn here with all the details, there's purchasing attraction brought in carefully chosen pose. Faroki The film traces the similarities and differences between two ways of representation, in which goods and things almost become a fetish.


production land: german
Run time: ~55 min