Harun Farocki Movies

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

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

A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the light bulbs from the conveyor belt and...

A review of film books old and new.

This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. Zwei Wege is a cheeky description...

A English-language remake of the German film "Nicht löschbares Feuer" (1969).

Vera and Heike are two friends who aspire for a dazzling lifestyle, but don’t own any savings to do so. Vera decides to start stealing from men...

Feasting or Flying by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann alludes to the statement: "Some dissect a bird in order to eat it, others in order to discover...

“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...

A documentation during four days of the creation of a Playboy magazine centerfold photograph from start to finish.

The work examines the painting Depiction of the Cerro Rico and the Imperial City of Potosí (Oil on canvas, 262 x 181 cm) by Gaspar Miguel des...

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In Immersion, Farocki presents footage of a...

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".

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

According to Fritz J. Raddatz, Rosa Luxemburg cried when she read Marx's concept of value. I was just as disappointed by the Cine-Tracts made in May...

Harun Farocki: Serious Games I–IV (2009–10) explores the use of virtual reality and gaming technology in U.S. military recruitment,...

The city today is as rationalised and regulated as a production process. The images which today determine the day of the city are operative images,...

Homewreckers' Music Video of "Confusion" directed by Harun Farocki. Image were recycled and edited from Farocki's previous work "Parallel".

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

The third part of the Eye/Machine cycle structures the material around the concept of the operational image. These are images which do not portray a...