{"id":45400,"date":"2017-09-19T17:57:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=45400"},"modified":"2021-04-12T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T17:11:33","slug":"christa-blumlingerharun-farocki-the-abcs-of-the-essay-film-christa-blumlinger-harun-farocki-harun-farocki-institut-motto-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=45400","title":{"rendered":"Christa Bl\u00fcmlinger\/Harun Farocki: The ABCs of the Essay Film. Christa Bl\u00fcmlinger, Harun Farocki. Harun Farocki Institut &#038; Motto Books."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-45401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto02-682x512.jpg\" alt=\"Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto02\" width=\"682\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto02-682x512.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto02-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto02-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto02.jpg 1576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45402\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto03-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto03\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto03-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto03-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto03-682x512.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto03.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto05-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto05\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto05-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto05-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto05-682x512.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Christa_Blumlinger_Harun_Farocki_motto05.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Autumn and Winter 2013\/2014, Christa Bl\u00fcmlinger and Harun Farocki worked on the dialogical \u201cABCs of the Essay Film,\u201d which is published here for the first time in its original German version. In 26 short paragraphs, reacting to key terms suggested by Christa Bl\u00fcmlinger (from \u201cA for Adorno\u201d to \u201cZ for Zidane\u201d), Farocki explores his proximity, but also his distance to filmmakers like Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Artavazd Peleshian, or Alexander Kluge and speaks about specific operations in his films, TV programs, and installations.<\/p>\n<p>The text is complemented by a short text by Farocki which was published in 1987 to accompany a film program at the Berlin Akademie der K\u00fcnste, where the essay film is described as a film \u201cthat is useful without being subservient and without standing to attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/mottoberlin\/christa-blumlinger-harun-farocki-the-abcs-of-the-essay-film.html\">Buy it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Autumn and Winter 2013\/2014, Christa Bl\u00fcmlinger and Harun Farocki worked on the dialogical \u201cABCs of the Essay Film,\u201d which is published here for the first time in its original German version. In 26 short paragraphs, reacting to key terms suggested by Christa Bl\u00fcmlinger (from \u201cA for Adorno\u201d to \u201cZ for Zidane\u201d), Farocki explores his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251,162,3544,252],"tags":[5767,5459,5754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48091,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400\/revisions\/48091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}