Farocki assembles his film footage as collages, almost without narration, such that only a series of ideas strung together remains. The problem is just that this way of constructing the world does not ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1943 Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka exhibited an immense, violent painting of a crucifixion called What We ...