A Harun Farocki Retrospective December 16–18, 2010

İstanbul Modern Cinema presents, with the collaboration of Goethe-Institut İstanbul, a selection of seven films by Harun Farocki, a key figure in the history of German cinema, a video and installation artist, cultural theorist, and “philosopher of images”. This retrospective includes works from the 1960s to the present by this pioneering artist who has made over a hundred works witnessing contemporary world history and who questions the potential of film in the art space. The selection also includes the artist’s most symbolic works such as Inextinguishable Fire from 1969 about the physical damages of napalm burns and Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989) in which he contemplates on the relation between media, information, and technology.