La expresión de las manos (Harun Farocki) + Copia certificada (Abbas Kiarostami)

This double session is related to the October 17th screening. We will watch two films that somehow inspired Jessica Sarah Rinland when she made her films.

La expresión de las manos, Harun Farocki, Alemania, 1997, 30’  OV with Spanish subtitles.

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, it's 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).

Full credits are: Original title: Der Ausdruck der Hände. Director: Harun Farocki. Scriptwriter: Harun Farocki, Jörg Becker. Cinematographer: Ingo Kratisch. Sound: Klaus Klingler. Editor: Max Reimann. Researcher in the USA: David Barker, Tom Bigelow. Production: Harun Farocki Filmproduktion, Berlin, for WDR. TV-producer: Werner Dütsch. Format: video-BetaSp, 1:1,37, col. Length: 30 min. First broadcast: 07.09.1997, 3sat

Copia certificada, Abbas Kiarostami, Frantzia/Francia, Italia, Belgika/Bélgica, Iran, 2010, 106’ OV with Spanish subtitles.

An English author visits Italy to promote his latest book and give a lecture on the relationship between originals and copies in the art world. He meets the owner of a French art gallery and they decide to spend a couple of hours walking through the alleys of a small town in southern Tuscany.