Images of The World and The Inscription of War

Made 43 years after the Second World War, this is one of Harun Farocki’s most celebrated works. The film focuses on the ‘blind spots’ in the interpretation of aerial photographs taken during an American bombing raid in 1944 of an industrial plant in Germany. Decades later, when the photos were analysed by the CIA, it turned out that the Auschwitz concentration camp was also captured in these images.

Farocki shows the links between war and photography, and between photography and interpretation, exploring how perception is conditioned by what people want or don’t want to see, rendering observers as either passive accomplices or victims in times of war.

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