Movies: Jörg Becker

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in industrial production, workers' strikes and motion pictures-- via images of workers leaving factories throu...

A conglomerate by Volker Heymann, Henning Abersfelder and Jörg Becker: A wild compilation of absurdities in woods and meadows and the presentation of a new sport....

Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their attention on hands. Using film extracts, Farocki explores this visual language, its symbolism, Freud...