This is the first UK exhibition of the two-screen and multi-screen works of revered German filmmaker Harun Farocki. The survey comprises nine installations, from his first two-screen project Interface, 1995, to Immersion, about US trauma following the occupation of Iraq.

Working since the sixties, Farocki (born in 1944, living in Berlin) has pioneered what can be described as the film essay. Beginning as an argument (often about the effects on the individual of capitalism, consumerism, technology or war) his films digress anecdotally into associated subject matter, becoming open-ended rather than polemical. Farocki's films also reflect on the way in which our culture constructs photographic and moving images, and the uses to which these images are put.

In the mid-nineties, Farocki began making films for two, and occasionally more, screens. Above all, this enabled him to use images to comment on images. Designed to be installed and looped, these films address the critical engagement of viewers at large in an art gallery.



As a counterpoint to Raven Row's exhibition of his multi-screen work, Tate Modern will be projecting a season of Farocki's single-screen films in its auditorium (13 November–6 December).

Raven Row has also commissioned a monograph on Farocki, testimony of twenty-six film critics and colleagues, edited by Antje Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun, which will be published by Koenig Books to coincide with this exhibition.