Indoctrination DVD

German filmmaker Harun Farocki has consistently explored ideas of language, ideology, perception, and contemporary audio-visual culture. Farocki recorded a five-day seminar designed to teach management executives how to better present themselves using basic rules of dialectics and rhetoric. Throughout the seminar, a group of young professionals learn verbal skills so they can "sell themselves" better; then they are trained in body language, posture, and facial expression. Using no titles, talking heads, narration, or other conventions of documentary, Farocki manages to expose how big business uses psychology and principles of rhetoric to sell ideas and products.

The always-innovative director Harun Farocki continues to explore relevant and fascinating issues of contemporary culture with this wry, illuminating documentary, which presents clips from a business seminar on rhetoric and presentation. As executives and managers spend five days learning how to be better salesman, Farocki, without resorting to narration, titles, or interviews, manages an incisive commentary on the subtle techniques that large corporations use to get what they want.