FAROCKI MADE ME HARDCORE: Three films by Harun Farocki

Veronica Project Space is pleased to present three films by Harun Farocki at Northwest Film Forum. Curated by Aurora San Miguel.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 7pm
NWFF, 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122
Admission is Free!

The three career-spanning films presented in this program deal with our changing relationship to how we see and how meaning is made.

Program:
Inextinguishable Fire (1969, 22 min.)
“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.”
– Harun Farocki

War at a Distance (2003, 58 min)
“In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those generated on a computer. This loss of bearings was to change forever our way of deciphering what we see. The image is no longer used only as testimony, but also as an indispensable link in a process of production and destruction. This is the central premise of War at a Distance, which continues the deconstruction of claims to visual objectivity Harun Farocki developed in his earlier work. With the help of archival and original material, Farocki sets out in effect to define the relationship between military strategy and industrial production, and sheds light on how the technology of war finds applications in everyday life.”
– Antje Ehmann

Parallel I (2012, 15 min)
“Apparently today computer animation is taking the lead. Our subject is the development and creation of digital animation. If, for example, a forest has to be covered in foliage, the basic genetic growth program will be applied, so that ‘trees with fresh foliage’, ‘a forest in which some trees bear four-week-old foliage, others six-week-old foliage’ can be created. The more generative algorithms are used, the more the image detaches itself from the appearance as found and becomes an ideal-typical.”
– Harun Farocki

Image and films provided by Video Data Bank.