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Ein Bild von Sarah Schumann [A Picture of Sarah Schumann] (Harun Farocki, 1978)

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26

National Sarah Day

Ein Bild von Sarah Schumann (1978)

A close-up of the artist's hand at work. More stills and details about this film on Frieze. DP: Ingo Kratisch.

Commissioned for a West-German TV series called Kunstgeschichten (litt. both “art stories” and “#art histories”), filmmaker Harun Farocki visits artist Sarah Schumann in her #Berlin studio.

“An diesem Tag war das Bild, drei Monate nach Beginn und 67 Arbeitstagen fertig.”

– narrator

The resulting documentary shows the process of creating one art piece over the course of nine weeks. Schumann's work in that period consists of collage portraits of women important in her life.