• Harun Farocki: Inextinguishable Fire, 1969

  • Jill Godmilow: What Farocki Taught, 1998

  • Joyce Wieland: Rat Life and Diet in North America, 1968

  • Harun Farocki: Inextinguishable Fire, 1969

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.”

Films in this Screening

Rat Life and Diet in North America

Joyce Wieland, Canada, United States, 1968

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 16 mins
source
  • CFMDC

Inextinguishable Fire

Harun Farocki, West Germany, 1969

FEATURING
Harun Farocki
Hanspeter Krüger
Eckart Kammer
Caroline Gremm

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Harun Farocki
Cinematographer
  • Gerd Conradt
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 25 mins
source
  • Harun Farocki GbR

What Farocki Taught

Jill Godmilow, United States, 1998

FILM DETAILS 
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  • Color
  • 16mm
  • 30 mins
source
  • Canyon Cinema

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