Archives of the Future Past: Harun Farocki’s Critique of Television in The Trouble with Images (1973)
Laura Lux
From Citational Media: Counter-Archives and Technology in Contemporary Visual Culture (2025), pp. 23-44, doi:10.59860/vc.c058855
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| Part of the book: Citational Media Edited by Annie Ring and Lucy Bollington Legenda Abstract. Although Harun Farocki has become a renowned filmmaker in documentary and essayistic film practices, reflecting on the ‘in-betweens’ of images through film, there is still little known on the prevalence of his ideas around2 montage and the moving image in his critique of television in the early 1970s. What follows aims to revisit this often-forgotten step in Farocki’s evolution as a filmmaker while outlining his critical thoughts on television and analysing the citational counterstrategies in film which he developed to undermine its techniques of obfuscation, amnesia, and systematisation. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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