Harun Farocki: Programme 6 #BKKIFF2025

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German (EN Subs) | Before Your Eyes – Vietnam interrogates the Vietnam War and its place in cultural memory. The film does not recount the conflict directly but instead examines the absence and distortion of its images within West German society, exposing how cinema and media mediate history. Through a mixture of staged sequences, narration, and critical montage, Farocki highlights the gap between representation and lived reality, questioning why the suffering of victims is displaced by narratives of trauma, spectacle, or political ideology. Vietnam emerges not as a distant event but as a screen through which the West views itself, laying bare the mechanisms of visibility and erasure. A work of rigorous analysis and poetic reflection, Before Your Eyes – Vietnam reflects Farocki’s enduring concern with how images organise knowledge, power, and collective memory.