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How to Live in the FRG – Harun Farocki Series
November 3, 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
FreeHow To Live in the FRG assembles out of a wealth of details a picture of a society in which childbearing and dying, crying and taking care of people, crossing streets and killing are taught and learned in state or private institutions, indeed have to be learned. The real mechanical ballet is not danced by machines but by people, who move to a music that feeds on bombastic phrases from the realms of social work, bureaucracy and therapy. All together, the collected scenes appear to support the view that a mentality of insurance and providing for the future prevails in the FRG, a country in which happiness as well as misery are supposed to be disciplined by means of social techniques and freed from any measure of unpredictability.
(Harun Farocki, Germany, German W/ Eng Sub, 83 min, 1990, Digital)
Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres