Kill the Documentary

A tribute to the late filmmaker, critic, and teacher Jill Godmilow, this program consists of Harun Farocki’s blistering demonstration of the murderous mechanisms of capitalism, Inextinguishable Fire (1969)—which, through deadpan performance and editing, describes Dow Chemical’s corporate structure and the company’s development of napalm—along with Godmilow’s shot-for-shot remake, What Farocki Taught (1998), and Joyce Wieland’s whimsical yet profound Rat Life and Diet in North America. Godmilow provocatively stated of this film, “I don’t think there’s a more important film about the Vietnam War, or any war for that matter.”