Harun Farocki Movies

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic....

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

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In A Sun With No Shadow, Farocki calls attention to...

One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken...

A cinematic interpretation and literary adaptation of a text by Charles Baudelaire. "I had intended that each of the roughly 60 shots would be...

Before Your Eyes – Vietnam (1982) is an unconventional essay film by Harun Farocki that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the...

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,...

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...

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in...

A remake, in English 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...

Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his previous life into question. As a result, he leaves...

Respite consists of silent black-and-white film shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after...

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for...

Documentary about turkish expats returning to Turkey.

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives how to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the...