Skip Norman

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1 Berlin-Harlem
Cinematography
An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.
Kennen Sie Fernsehen?
Cinematography
Early dffb film by M. Ludin.
Kohlen für die Naunynstraße
Cinematography
Short film.
On Africa
Director
Skip Norman shot ‘On Africa’ after graduating from the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). On the level of the image, we see tracking shots through West Berlin, information detailing the economic gains of colonialist exploitations, and photographs from West Africa, while the soundtrack shares facts about the continent’s conquest and decolonization. As Norman himself put it: “The starting point is the relationship between Europe’s prosperity and Africa’s poverty; Europe’s destruction of societies and cultures, and the simultaneous use of Christianity and racial theories as justification for a massive exploitation of the colonized.” ‘On Africa’ was first shown in 1970 and then broadcast on television by WDR in 1972. In 2020, the Harun Farocki Institut was able to digitize a 16mm print from the archive at the WDR.
Maulwürfe der Revolution
Cinematography
German agitprop film.
Strange Fruit
Director
Recordings of a speech Bobby Seale held in Scandinavia intercut with roving streets and images.
Blues People
Short experimental film by (and starring) Skip Norman dealing with racism, black/white relations, the blues.
Blues People
Writer
Short experimental film by (and starring) Skip Norman dealing with racism, black/white relations, the blues.
Blues People
Director
Short experimental film by (and starring) Skip Norman dealing with racism, black/white relations, the blues.
Their Newspapers
Cinematography
Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the Berliner Zeitung and the Bild Zeitung. Claiming the latter were manipulating public opinion, the students laid siege to the publisher's offices. These events made a strong impression on the German collective conscience, and it's in this context that Farocki made this "agit-prop" film.
Unsere Steine
Cinematography
Essay film about student protests in Berlin.
Cultural Nationalism
Director
A quiet scene in the snow, a black child in an anorak runs mumbling towards the camera. The pictures of Skip Norman's CULTURAL NATIONALISM (1968) are underpinned with a powerful monologue by the co-founder of the Black Panther Party Bobby Seale
Johnson & Co. and the Campaign Against Poverty
Clearly influenced by Brecht and Jean-Marie Straub, criticizes the reduction of human relations to economic relations as well as the US imperialism in Vietnam.
White Christmas
Cinematography
One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken seriously, or whether it is intended as a denunciation. In either event, America's war in Vietnam is denounced. (Harun Farocki)
Break the Power of the Manipulators
Cinematography
Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the publishing house Springer, particularly its control and manipulation of the news.
Situationen
Self
Scenes from Berlin: Kids playing football, a man tries to light a fire in his stove, a film team sets up a shot in a park, students discuss politics.
Subjektitüde
Camera Operator
A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus stop on a busy street in Berlin.