Interface

A video about his work—this was the brief Harun Farocki received from the museum of modern art in Lille. The result was an installation, which he later adapted into this short film. We see Farocki seated at an editing table, with two monitors showing different images side by side. The entire film unfolds in split screen, again multiplying the images.

In many of his films, Farocki uses archival footage; here, he examines what it means to work with existing images rather than creating new ones himself. Drawing on his own films, including Videograms of a Revolution and An Image, he analyzes the choices he made when making them. How images relate to one another, how cutting from one shot to another changes its meaning. How editing is a way of thinking.