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The Expression of Hands (1997)
Directed by Harun Farocki
· 30m
Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their attention on hands. Using film extracts, Farocki explores this visual language, its symbolism, Freudian slips, automatisms and its music. Often, hands betray an emotion which the face tries to dissimulate. They can also function as a conduit (exchanging money) or witness to a form of competence (work).
Cast
Harun Farocki
Crew
- Director
- Harun Farocki
- Writer
- Harun Farocki, Jörg Becker
- Director of Photography
- Ingo Kratisch
- Editor
- Max Reimann
- Producer
- Werner Dütsch
Details
- Original title
- Der Ausdruck der Hände
- Release date
- 1997-09-07
- Runtime
- 30m
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- English, German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Harun Farocki Filmproduktion