Images Studying Images: Kevin B. Lee on Harun Farocki + Q&A

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Harun Farocki (1944-2014) produced over 120 works of film, television and video art, but his immense impact on the media landscape has yet to be fully appreciated. Following his tenure as the first artist-in-residence of the newly formed Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin, Kevin B. Lee produced a series of video essays on Farocki for the Goethe-Institut. The video essays adopt Farocki’s own strategy of “images studying images” to explore the artist’s own formidable oeuvre, applying such novel approaches as desktop documentary and videographic lexicography. This screening matches the video essays with key works spanning Farocki’s five decade career.

Harun Farocki – The Counter-Image
Kevin B. Lee, 2018, Germany, 11’

Two Paths
Harun Farocki, 1966, Germany, 3’

Harun Farocki – Lexicon
Kevin B. Lee, 2018, Germany, 13’

Catch Phrases – Catch Images. A Conversation with Vilém Flusser
Harun Farocki, 1986, Germany, 13’

Harun Farocki – Presented
Kevin B. Lee, 2018, Germany, 11’

Parallel II
Harun Farocki, 2014, Germany, 9’

Image credit: Kevin B Lee / Harun Farocki GbR

This is the World Premiere of the series of video essays

Followed by a Q&A with Kevin B. Lee