After the reading of “Harun Farocki, the missing image or the critical point of the images” by Diego Fernández (2014), the issue of the legibility of the images and what these conceal, an «outside» granter of meaning, arises. Using the discussion proposed by Fernández as a point of reference, this article seeks to explicit the linguistic procedures by which Farocki operates, addressing the issue from the field of filmic studies.