How to Live In the FRG

Known Unknowns film season
Part of Arnolfini's Old Media season, this season of films and videos focuses on the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them. The lines between documentary and fiction, acting and being, thought and moving images, become fuzzy; suggesting that cinema has become a prosthetics for our memories, subjectivities and doubts.

Film

Thu 5 Aug, 6.30pm

£6.00/£4.50 Concs

Wherever one looks, people appear as actors playing themselves. Here Farocki assembles a fascinating picture of the incessant effort to be prepared for the emergency of 'reality'; a society in which childbirth and dying, crossing streets and killing are all taught and performed.

Dir. Harun Farocki Germany 1990 1h 23m Subtitled

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