Manfred Blank Movies

A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of...