Harun Farocki Movies

  • 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
  • 1973
    Brunner ist dran

    Brunner ist dran

    Brunner ist dran

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    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
  • 1988
    Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith

    Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith

    Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith

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

    Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
  • 2003
    War at a Distance

    War at a Distance

    War at a Distance

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

    War at a Distance
  • 1986
    Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser

    Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser

    Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser

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    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
  • 1991
    What’s Up?

    What’s Up?

    What’s Up?

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    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?
  • 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

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    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
  • 2010
    Serious Games 1 –

    Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"

    Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"

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    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 –
  • 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
  • 1979
    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life

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    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
  • 2012
    A New Product

    A New Product

    A New Product

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    A New Product is a corporate documentary, or, that is, a document of corporate qualities; specifically about what seems to be a small company whose...

    A New Product
  • 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

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    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
  • 2007
    Comparison via a Third

    Comparison via a Third

    Comparison via a Third

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    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
  • 1966
    Everybody a Berliner Kindl

    Everybody a Berliner Kindl

    Everybody a Berliner Kindl

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    Advertising posters for the Berliner Kindl brewery in the stands of Berlin’s sports arena show beer drinkers through the ages, from an...

    Everybody a Berliner Kindl
  • 1969
    The Inextinguishable Fire

    The Inextinguishable Fire

    The Inextinguishable Fire

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

    The Inextinguishable Fire
  • 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
  • 1993
    Navy Cut

    Navy Cut

    Navy Cut

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    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
  • 2025
    Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

    Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

    Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

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    “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...

    Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
  • 1969
    Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets

    Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets

    Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets

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    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...

    Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets
  • 2006
    On Construction of Griffith’s Films

    On Construction of Griffith’s Films

    On Construction of Griffith’s Films

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    In On Construction of Griffith' Films we picked a sequence from Griffith Intolerance (1916). It shows a dialogue between a man and a woman, filmed...

    On Construction of Griffith’s Films