Catalogue des films de « Ingo Kratisch »

Three months in an architects’ firm in Berlin. From the architecture down to the tiniest door handle, a questioning of matter and the verb. Architects at work: a priori nothing lends itself better to cinema, nothing is more graphic than shots...

"For a whole year, Harun Farocki follows the meetings of Quickborner Team (QT), a Hamburg-based consulting firm that is developing a new “product”. The time of fixed, personalised offices is over. Welcome to the firms whose 80,000 square...

"At the outset, a ballet, with a de rigueurwooden floor. A theatre? No, the Volkswagen factory in Dresden, the acme of personalized high-tech production of cars fitted by hand in an automated universe, silent, all with an elegant glide. Follows...

What venture capital or VC for short actually means is explained the film itself. Banks only lend money against collateral. Those who have none have to turn to VC companies and pay interest of 40%. At least we had filmed scenes at a wide range of...

Harun Farocki continues his methodical investigation into the links between industrial production and new war technology. As usual, he uses existing images: on one hand, archive footage that shows the motions of alienated work; on the other,...

Shopping is an everyday cultural act; it is inevitable, taken for granted. Entering into the world of shopping - the world of shopping malls - can be a Dantean voyage into hell or a redeeming ceremony of Communion. Everyone is familiar with this...

Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their attention on hands. Using film extracts, Farocki explores this visual language; it’s...

"In the summer of 1996, we filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university graduates, people who have been re-trained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts, and mid-level...

According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from everyday life - the "still life". The filmmaker illustrates this...

The author assembles a genre picture of the contemporary FRG with shots of scenes where life is rehearsed, ability/durability is tested. Wherever one looks, people appear as actors playing themselves; they take on roles. A play in the theater of...