READING
As Part of THE DEVIL,…
January 4–February 6, 2014
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IN COMPARISON
Harun Farocki
Ehmann, Antje and Kodwo Eshun. “A to Z of HF or: 26 Introductions to HF,” in Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom? Eds. Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun. London: Koenig Books, Raven Row, 2009. PDF
Elsaesser, Thomas. Harun Farocki: Working on the Sightlines. Ed. Thomas Elsaesser. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004. PDF
Farocki, Harun. “Difficult Questions,” in Imprint: Writings / Nachdruck: Texte. Eds. Susanne Gaensheimer and Nicolaus Schafhausen. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2001. PDF
Farocki, Harun. “What An Editing Room Is,” in Imprint: Writings / Nachdruck: Texte. Eds. Susanne Gaensheimer and Nicolaus Schafhausen. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2001. PDF
Farocki, Harun. “Workers Leaving the Factory,” in Imprint: Writings / Nachdruck: Texte. Eds. Susanne Gaensheimer and Nicolaus Schafhausen. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2001. PDF
Farocki, Harun. “Written Trailers,” in Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom? Eds. Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun. London: Koenig Books, Raven Row, 2009. PDF
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GENESIS OF A MEAL
Luc Moullet
Evrard, Audrey. “Framing the world economics in a tuna can: Luc Moullet tracks Genèse d’un repas.” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, 54 (2012). LINK
Moullet, Luc. “The Green Garbage Bins of Gilles Deleuze.” Rouge (2005). LINK
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. “À la recherche de Luc Moullet: 25 Propositions.” Film Comment (Nov.–Dec. 1977). LINK
Rosenbaum, Jonathan. “The Modest Master [Luc Moullet].” Chicago Reader (March 31, 2006). LINK
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THE SONG OF STYRENE
Alain Resnais
Barthes, Roland. “Plastic.” Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. PDF
Dimendberg, Edward. “‘These are not exercises in style’: Le chant du Styrène.” October (No. 112, Spring 2005): 63–88. PDF
Robbe-Grillet, Alain. “Nature, Humanism and Tragedy.” New Left Review, May–June 1965. PDF
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SLOW GLASS
John Smith
Benjamin, Walter. “The Author as Producer.” Understanding Brecht. London: Verso, 1998: 85–103. PDF
Bradshaw, Nick. “John Smith: Of Process and Puns.” British Film Institute, November 21, 2013. LINK
Comer, Stuart. “Funny Games: Stuart Comer talk with John Smith.” Artforum, May 2011: 250–257.PDF
Farber, Manny. “White Elephant Art and Termite Art.” Film Culture, 1962. LINK
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MEAT
Frederick Wiseman
Delbanco, Andrew, William T. Vollmann, Joshua Siegel et al. Frederick Wiseman. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010.
Hawthorne, Mary. “The Exchange: Frederick Wiseman.” The New Yorker, Jan. 18, 2011. LINK
Morris, Errol. “Frederick Wiseman: The Tawdry Gruesomeness of Reality.” The Paris Review, Feb. 28, 2011. LINK
Wiseman, Frederick. “On Editing.” The Threepenny Review, Spring 2008. LINK
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ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PAPER, PART 1
MINING AND IRONWORKS, PART 2
ABOUT THE ADVENT OF THE PRINTING PRESS
Peter and Zsóka Nestler
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London, Verso, 1983. PDF
DeBray, Régis. “Socialism: A Life-Cycle.” The New Left Review 46, July–August 2007. PDF
Small, Christopher. “Eyes Don’t Want to Close at All Times: Peter Nestler and His Films.” Nov. 25, 2013. LINK
Tret’iakov, Sergei. “The Biography of the Object.” In October (No. 118, Fall 2006: 57–62). Original essay is “Biografiia veshchi,” in Literatura fakta, ed. Nikolai Chuzhak (Moscow: Federatsiia, 1929): 66–70.) PDF
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THE FORGOTTEN SPACE
Allan Sekula and Noël Burch
The Readings for Allan Sekula’s class on Globalization at CalArts (1 of 2). PDF
The Readings for Allan Sekula’s class on Globalization at CalArts (2 of 2). PDF
Levinson, Marc. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. LINK
“A Film About the Sea: Notes on Allan Sekula and Noel Burch’s The Forgotten Space.” Nova Scotia: Centre for European Studies, 2012. LINK
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RR
James Benning
Conrad, Tony. “Duration.” October 2004. LINK
Fisher, Morgan. “Carl Andre and Film.” PDF
McPhee, John. “Coal Train Part I: A Reporter at Large.” In The New Yorker, October 3, 2005. PDF
McPhee, John. “A Fleet of One.” In The New Yorker, February 17, 2003. PDF
Peranson, Mark. “Interviews: Trainspotting with James Benning.” In Cinema Scope. LINK
Simon, David. “There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.” In The Guardian, December 7, 2013. LINK
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WEST OF THE TRACKS
Wang Bing
Jie Li. “Wang Bing’s West of the Tracks: Salvaging the Rubble of Utopia.” PDF
Lu Xinyu. “West of the Tracks: History and Class Consciousness.” Trans. J.X. Zhang. In The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement. Hong Kong University Press, 2010. PDF
Wang Bing. “Interview: Filming a Land in Flux.” New Left Review 82 (July–August 2013): 115–134. PDF
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IBM: A SELF PORTRAIT
Albert & David Maysles
Rick Prelinger. The Field Guide to Sponsored Films. San Francisco, CA: National Film Preservation Foundation, 2006. LINK
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THE DARTY REPORT
Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville
Richard Brody. “Profiles: An Exile in Paradise.” The New Yorker, November 20, 2000. PDF
“Exchange: Le Petit Sold-Out.” Harper’s Magazine, December 2010: 27–28. PDF
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THE STORE
Frederick Wiseman
Michael Hardt and Toni Negri. “Postmodernization, or the Informatization of Production.” In Empire, revised and published in e-flux Journal 3.4, 2013. LINK