The Interview
1997 | 00:58:00 | Germany | German | Color | 4:3 | BetacamSP video
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: European Film/Video, Labor
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In the summer of 1996 we filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop outs, university graduates, people who have to be retrained, the long-term unemployed, recovered drug addicts and mid-term managers – all of them are supposed to learn how to how to market and sell themselves, a skill to which the term “self-management” is applied. The self is perhaps nothing but a metaphysical hook from which to hang a social identity. It was Kafka who likened being accepted for a job to entering the Kingdom of Heaven; the paths leading to both of them are completely uncertain. Today one speaks of getting a job with the greatest obsequiousness, but without any grand expectations.
-- Harun Farocki
Cinematographer: Ingo Kratisch; Second Cinematographer Bernd Löhr; Editor: Max Reimann; Sound: Ludger Blanke; Music: Neil Young; Researcher: Ludger Blanke; Production: Harun Farocki Film-produktion, Berlin, for den Süd-deutschen Rundfunk; Stuttgart Producer: Harun Farocki; TV Producer: Juliane Endres
Premiere
Arte01/01/1997
Exhibitions + Festivals
Commissioned for the TV Series La vie en face / Welt im Blick
1 Comment
"Last night I saw a video work Immersion by German artist Harun Farocki, which dctomenus psychotherapy sessions with soldiers who came back from Iraq with PTSD in which the soldier is aided by virtual simulation program in recreating a traumatic experience. The result of such recollection is creation of a 3D environment and a dangerous situation which are native to video games, except in this situation the experience already happened in reality. This is not really adding to your discussion, but its haunting to think that soldiers are recruited into the army with the use of videos resembling video games, trained by video games and then their traumas are treated by 3D virtual simulations."
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