Nel silenzio del parco

In the Shade of the Hills

Amani is 31. When he was an infant, he survived the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsi population. Three decades later, Amani has set up an organisation in Nyamirambo, one of the more economically impoverished districts of the country’s capital, Kigali. It employs creativity, artistic practice and performance to grapple with poverty and generational trauma – acknowledging that deep-seated ideologies can easily foment prejudice and create an environment that proved so catastrophic in the past.

Pour de vrai

Retour à Walden (Une économie)

Solaris - als Grundfrage der Philosophie

Documentary in which Michael Rosenhahn explains the philosophical subtext of the film Solaris (1972).

l'eau tonne à minuit

Dos Chicos Frente al Mar

Two young men meet during a summer day on the Mediterranean coast.

Chimères

Young Art Bohemian

September 1945. South of France. War is over. Three young artists reunite to discuss the future. One of them, Nicolas, presents a plan for all the new corporations that are going to grow soon, in which advertising and art can merge. But Raphaël thinks differently. He wants fresh air and poetry. Therefore, he leaves. Choosing the freedom of nature like a young bohemian artist.

The Withered Corpses

Absorbed in his thoughts, an artist is trapped behind his chaotic world.

Essence

Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Filmed at the United States Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Watson is Down pairs footage of soldiers at computers engaging in combat-simulation training with scenes from the video games.

Rolf und Susanne gehen ins Hallenbad

Rolf and Susanne visit an indoor swimming pool. They learn how to buy tickets at the ticket office, how to find and use the changing rooms and showers and how to behave correctly in the pools for swimmers and non-swimmers.

Anselm Feuerbach

TV-Documentary about the German painter Anselm Feuerbach

Verständigung durch Zeichen

How can children communicate with other road users as pedestrians and cyclists? A pantomime also explains sign language.

Serious Games 2 – Three Dead

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Three Dead depicts a military exercise within a mock Iraqi town built on the outskirts of Twentynine Palms, California, blurring the line between computer simulation and reality.

Serious Games 3 – Immersion

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In Immersion, Farocki presents footage of a role-playing exercise in which military psychologists demonstrate how to use the PTSD program on their colleagues, who describe traumatic wartime experiences. On a second channel, their descriptions play out as virtual renderings.

Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In A Sun With No Shadow, Farocki calls attention to the subtle differences between the simulations for combat training and PTSD. With the former, the sun can be programmed to cast shadows in the virtual combat zones, while the latter, less expensive technology does not offer this feature.

Las viudas de Ifni

Ifni ceased to be a Spanish province in 1969, the year in which it was transferred to Morocco. In 1965, General Franco's regime enacted a law that would prevent many of the widows of Moroccan personnel from the former colony from receiving their corresponding widow's pensions. Abandoned by Spain, and repudiated by Morocco, today these women live in miserable conditions.