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Indoctrination

Harun Farocki

1987 00:43:20 GermanyGermanColor4:3Video
Tags:
Consumer culture, European Film/Video

Description

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the basic rules of dialectics and rhetoric and provides training in body language, gesture and facial expression. The aim of selling something has always been a principle of mercantile action. Yet it was only through the marriage of psychology and modern capitalism that the idea of selling oneself was perfected.

-- Lutz Hachmeister

Cinematographer: Simon Kleebauer; Second Cinematographer: Rosa Mercedes with Harun Farocki; Light Design/Video Technician: Jürgen Frieß, Fabian Meyer; Editor: Roswitha Gnädig, Sound: Rolf Müller; Production: SWF, Baden-Baden; TV Producer: Ebbo Demant; Location Manager: Uwe Kremp

 

About Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki (1944-2014) was born in German-annexed Czechoslovakia. From 1966 to 1968 he attended the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). In addition to teaching posts in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, Munich and Stuttgart, he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Farocki made close to 120 films, including feature films, essay films and documentaries. He worked in collaboration with other filmmakers as a scriptwriter, actor and producer. In 1976 he staged Heiner Müller's plays The Battle and Tractor together with Hanns Zischler in Basel, Switzerland.

He wrote for numerous publications, and from 1974 to 1984 he was editor and author of the magazine Filmkritik (München). His work has shown in many national and international exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums.