Harun Farocki Movies

Interview film with Peter Weiss

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica discuss the visual material of the 1989 Romanian revolution they used for Videogramme einer Revolution (1992) in a...

Der Wahlhelfer deals with the development of a young trainee lawyer and FDP (Free Democrat Party) supporter who becomes a revolutionary.

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between...

On Easter 1968 an assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke was carried out. Shortly afterwards street battles resulted throughout West Germany....

How a look can be turned toward its goal by grasping and measuring its covetousness is shown in an exemplary fashion in What's Up? in a motif...

The new production plants for the daily chat- and game shows are on the periphery; in the case of Unterföhring near Munich on the extension to...

Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a...

Vergleich über ein Drittes is about the concept of work, as reflected in the example of the manufacture and processing of bricks. Harun Farocki...

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between...

Images from the maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. A surveillance camera shows a pie-shaped segment of the concrete yard where the...

For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you...

In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those...

“Farocki’s ten-minute short film is composed of shots of an AFN DJ at work…and of a car ride, whereby the camera points out of the...

An ad agency creates a new campaign for a shoe company.

Cinema’s onscreen worlds have always borne an indexical bond to the real. What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as...

An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in Berlin testifies to his openness and generosity.

Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Telekritik documentary approaches were...