Manfred Blank

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political...