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  • In Comparison
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  • Harun Farocki

Country: Germany/Austria
Year: 2009
Runtime: 61 minutes
Format: Colour/16mm
Rating: PG

This film plays in the Wavelengths 4: In Comparison Programme with the following films:

 S/T - Lisandro Alonso
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Description

Observation is also the main modus of Harun Farocki’s latest film, In Comparison (Austria/Germany), which revisits issues explored in the director’s 2007 two-channel installation Comparison Via a Third. This handsome 16mm colour film, which will have its North American premiere in Toronto, is a deceptively contemplative documentary about contemporary brick production. Spanning continents and cultures, the film focuses on the brick in its many contexts, from the collective efforts of a community building a clinic in Burkina Faso, through semi-industrialized mouldings in India, to industrial production lines in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland. Through its notable structure and its captivating rhythms, In Comparison presents various methods of labour production, allowing for an assessment that changes with every layer and goes well beyond a simple binary divide.

Cadillac People's Choice Award