Shots From the Canon #8: ‘How to Live in the German Federal Republic’ (Harun Farocki, 1990)

Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.

That the explicit target of Harun Farocki’s critique in How To Live in the German Federal Republic (aka West Germany) no longer really exists only heightens the film’s unique effect. Cut loose from the particular late-1980s political climate…