Harun Farocki Movies

  • 1993
    Navy Cut

    Navy Cut

    Navy Cut

    01993HD

    The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Before this can happen, however, he is murdered. The...

    Navy Cut
  • 1971
    Something Self Explanatory (15x)

    Something Self Explanatory (15x)

    Something Self Explanatory (15x)

    01971HD

    An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are...

    Something Self Explanatory (15x)
  • 1985
    Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède

    Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède

    Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède

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    Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède
  • 1973
    Brunner ist dran

    Brunner ist dran

    Brunner ist dran

    01973HD

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

    Brunner ist dran
  • 1979
    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life

    01979HD

    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...

    The Taste of Life
  • 2010
    Serious Games 1 –

    Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"

    Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"

    02010HD

    An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Filmed at the United States Marine Corps Air Ground...

    Serious Games 1 –
  • 2010
    The Silver and the Cross

    The Silver and the Cross

    The Silver and the Cross

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    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...

    The Silver and the Cross
  • 1995
    Pilots

    Pilots

    Pilots

    5.81995HD

    Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all...

    Pilots
  • 1991
    What’s Up?

    What’s Up?

    What’s Up?

    01991HD

    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...

    What’s Up?
  • 1983
    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    6.11983HD

    This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  • 1988
    Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith

    Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith

    Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith

    5.71988HD

    Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons.

    Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
  • 1985
    Betrayed

    Betrayed

    Betrayed

    01985HD

    A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her...

    Betrayed
  • 1978
    A Picture of Sarah Schumann

    A Picture of Sarah Schumann

    A Picture of Sarah Schumann

    01978HD

    This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer of...

    A Picture of Sarah Schumann
  • 1986
    Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser

    Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser

    Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser

    5.61986HD

    Harun Farocki sits down with Vilém Flusser to discuss the front page of the German tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitung.

    Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
  • 1968
    Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students

    Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students

    Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students

    01968HD

    The film Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition's (APO) so-called 'technology campaign' aimed at...

    Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    Cinématon

    4.31978HD

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

    Cinématon
  • 1973
    The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television

    The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television

    The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television

    01973HD

    Refreshingly, Farocki lays his cards on the table at the very beginning of the film, “I want to demonstrate that most feature films are of the...

    The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television
  • 2000
    I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts

    I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts

    I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts

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

    I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
  • 1997
    The Interview

    The Interview

    The Interview

    5.71997HD

    In the summer of 1996, Farocki filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university...

    The Interview
  • 2007
    Comparison via a Third

    Comparison via a Third

    Comparison via a Third

    02007HD

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

    Comparison via a Third