Memória, vestígio e montagem: um estudo sobre o arquivo em Imagens do mundo e inscrições de guerra, de Harun Farocki

Abstract

The research investigates the presence and use of archive images in Harun Farockis cinema, specifically in the movie Images of the World and Inscriptions of the War (Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges, 1988). The work of this Czech filmmaker that lives in Germany, problematizes, in general lines, the forms of exercise of power, whether those that emerge from geopolitical conflicts, whether those that are disseminated through the most diverse social practices (forms ofcontrol and monitoring, technologies of production and circulation of images, strategies of consumption, information and advertising). The study covers the relationship between the archive images and the historical processes triggered by these records, seeking to observe how Farocki assembles the images in films that evoke the past in its own materiality. The work focuses, in particular, at the analysis of the discursive operations of the archives as vestige-images and testimony-images.