

Watching people watch people make a movie about watching people. Meta enough for you?
A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.
Direction
Farocki's patient, surgical observation of two uncompromising artists at work.
Editing
Rhythmic cuts that mirror Straub-Huillet's own radical aesthetic.

Director
Harun Farocki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Farocki and Straub-Huillet were key figures in West Germany's militant film culture of the 1960s-80s, sharing roots in the same radical intellectual circles.
The documentary reveals Straub's notorious working method: dozens of identical takes until performance and text achieve near-mechanical precision.
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