Scene from the film Inextinguishable Fire
Scene from the film Inextinguishable Fire
Scene from the film Inextinguishable Fire
Scene from the film Inextinguishable Fire
Scene from the film Inextinguishable Fire

Inextinguishable Fire

Direction
Year 
1969
Country
  • Germany
Duration
22min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

Harun Farocki's films are a constant meditation on images and their sources. These inquiries provoke questions around into the institutions that produce images and put them into circulation. The director’s interest lies in establishing links between the military, science, and industrial forces, that are themselves mediated by military and civil technologies. In ‘The Inextinguishable Fire’ this is illustrated through the example of Dow Chemical, which produced plastic foil for households to use while simultaneously producing napalm for use in the Vietnam War. In the language of an instructional film Farocki looks at arms manufacturing and domestic manufacturing, asking the question how easy it is to make a machine-gun out of vacuum parts and a vacuum out of machine-gun parts.

Details

  • Original title
    Nicht löschbares Feuer
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Harun Farocki
  • DOP
    Gerd Conradt
  • Editing
    Harun Farocki
  • Sound
    Ulrich Knaudt
  • Duration
    22 min (16-30 min.)
  • Year
    1969
  • Country
    • Germany
  • Colour
    • Black & White
  • Production

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