23/02/2026
HaFI 024 focuses on a lecture given by Harun Farocki in March 1994 at the “Cine City: Film and Perceptions of Urban Space, 1895–1995” conference at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles. Here, Farocki wove an associative web of thoughts on the relationship between film, architecture, material worlds, political economy, dwelling, sexuality, space, and time. Although an interest in buildings, spatial relationships, and power relations, as well as the interpenetration of technical media and urban space, was central to Farocki’s practice, this is one of the few explicit explorations of the relationship between architecture and cinema.
The (German and English) manuscripts of Farocki’s lecture are supplemented by press material from the Getty Center’s extensive film and lecture series. In their postface, the editors provide elements of interpretation and contextualization with regard to Farocki’s previous and subsequent projects on spatiality and architecture.
HaFI 024
Harun Farocki: Building and Filmmaking. Document – Material – Commentary
Edited by Tom Holert and Volker Pantenburg
Paperback
16,5 x 24 cm
44 pages/Seiten
English/German
ISBN: 978-3-948546-36-6
Now available for the price of 8 Euro here
at Bierke.
HaFI 024 is realized with the support of Farocki Forum at the Dpt of Fulm Studies at the University of Zurich.
