Re: "What Farocki Taught" debuts at Rotterdam

Jonathan Leland Thorn (jlt30@columbia.edu)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 17:22:28 -0500

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Ted Mandell wrote:

> Jill Godmilow's latest film <italic>What Farocki Taught</italic> , shot
> in South Bend during the summer of '96, debuted at the Rotterdam Film
> Festival in February to rave reviews. Here's an excerpt from Gerald
> Peary's article in the Boston Phoenix:
>
>
> "...the world premiere of a fabulously Brechtian 30-minute film
> <italic>What Farocki Taught</italic>, by Jill Godmilow, which she made
> with her film students at Notre Dame University. Godmilow took a
> 30-year-old work by the Egyptian-German director Harun Farocki, and
> reshot it exactly, frame-by-frame, camera position by camera position.
> Farocki's was a Vietnam War-era inquiry into civilian responsibility
> for the development of killer napalm; it was set at Dow Chemical
> headquarters in Michigan. As reconfigured by Godmilow, the film is
> intellectually rigorous and emotionally frightening, a ferocious,
> committed, important historical/political tract for the amnesiac
> '90's."
>
>
> Cheers to Jill !!!
>
>
>
Congrats Jill,
Farm Boy, J.T.