Interface
1995     Director: Harun Farocki
1hr 47m
Rating: NR

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Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video about his work. His creation was an installation for two screens that was presented within the scope of the 1995 exhibition The World of Photography. The film Interface (Schnittstelle) developed out of that installation. Reflecting on Farocki’s own documentary work, it examines the question of what it means to work with existing images rather than producing one’s own, new images. The German title plays on the double meaning of “Schnitt”, referring both to Farocki’s workplace, the editing table, as well as the “human-machine interface”, where a person operates a computer using a keyboard and a mouse.
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ED/HF
2017     Director: Renée Green
Rating: NR

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Commissioned by the Walker Art Center and conceived as a “film as a conversation,” Green’s ED/HF is a cinematic meditation on lived experience, writing, film, and ongoing becomings. On its surface, ED/HF could be described as a double portrait of Green, and artist and filmmaker Harun Farocki. But ED/HF’s primary focus is guided less by a binary comparison of these two personas, and more by the pair’s personal experiences of migration and the legacies of displacement that have affected both the artists and their work.