Experimental | 28m

Following on from the 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon, the filmmaker tries to film the destruction of Beirut. We witness a city deserted by life, and ghostly characters who, featured in his earlier films, talk about living through such a war.

Director: Ghassan Salhab

Experimental | 25m

"When we show you pictures of napalm victims, you'll shut your eyes. You'll close your eyes to the pictures. Then you'll close them to the memory. And then you'll close your eyes to the facts."

These words are spoken at the beginning of an agitprop film that can be viewed as a unique and remarkable development. Farocki refrains from making any sort of emotional appeal. His point of departure is the following: "When napalm is burning, it is too late to extinguish it. You have to fight napalm where it is produced: in the factories."

Director, Scriptwriter, Editor: Harun Farocki
Assistant Editor: Helke Sander
Cinematography: Gerd Conradt
Sound: Ulrich Knaudt
Cast: Harun Farocki, Hanspeter Krüger, Eckart Kammer, Caroline Gremm, Gerd Volker Bussäus, Ingrid Oppermann

The Visit (1970)

Experimental | 10m

An oneiric film poem about a murder in occupied Palestine, in which Qais Al-Zubaidi used drawing, poetry, music, phonograph and pantomime with his technical virtuosity and formal expressionism.

Director: Qais Al-Zubaidi