Harun Farocki
Parallel I–IV (2014)
Harun Farocki, Parallel I–IV, 2012–14 først. Courtesy of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Filmmaker Harun Farocki’s four-part video installation traces how computer games have developed from primitive cartoon graphics to immersive, hyperrealistic environments over thirty years. Covering a wide historical arc from the ancient Greeks to modern film theory, Farocki’s film explores body-movement capture, representations of nature, points of view and the physics of the gaming world. He also filmed behind the scenes to show the workforce creating these alternative realities. Parallel I–IV was the last work Farocki completed before his death in 2014
Photo: Markus J. Feger, 2009
Harun Farocki (b. 1944 Czechoslovakia, d. 2014 Germany) was a German filmmaker, author and lecturer. He studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin in 1966–68, and edited Filmkritik between 1974–84. Influenced by Brecht and Godard, he made more than 90 films, mostly short experimental documentaries. Major retrospectives of his work were held at Tate Modern, London in 2009 and MoMA, New York, in 2011.
Courtesy of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
