Article Number: 10264
Soft Cover, English, Staple Binding, 32 Pages, 2007
Gerhard Benedikt Friedl

An Approach by Helmut Färber

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In An Approach by Helmut Färber, an unpublished text written in 2007, documentary filmmaker Gerhard Friedl (Knittelfeld. A Town without a History, Wolff von Amerongen. Did He Commit Bankruptcy Offences?) describes his experience of Färber’s courses at film school – a method of scrupulous, close analysis at the editing table that also played a crucial role in Harun Farocki’s teaching.

Helmut Färber, born in 1937, has been dedicating his life to film since the late 1950s: as a film critic (Filmkritik, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Trafic), teacher (HFF München and dffb Berlin), film historian and publisher of unique books (on Mizoguchi, Griffith, Renoir, amongst others), as well as occasional author and director of TV programs (for Westdeutscher Rundfunk/WDR). The impression he left on generations of filmmakers and artists, writers and thinkers is seldom acknowledged but can hardly be overestimated.

Language: English