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Article: Time frame.(remake films 'Shulie' and 'What Farocki Taught')
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- November 1, 1998
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KATE HAUG
Finally the 1960s have hit art cinema. These new films are not nostalgic nods to Stan Brakhage or documentary glimpses of long-hairs seizing university campuses. Instead, the 1960s resurface in two remakes: Elisabeth Subrin's Shulie (1997) and Jill Godmilow's What Farocki Taught (1998). The '90s remakes take respectively Shulie (1967, by Jerry Blumenthal, Sheppard Ferguson, James Leahy and Alan Rettig) and Harun Farocki's Inextinguishable Fire (1969) and re-shoot them scene for scene. The script, camera shots, costumes, backdrops, graphs, props are all copies. The contemporary versions look, sound and act - as much as they can - like the originals. ...