Harun Farocki Movies

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...

1989, the fall of the Berlin wall. Television crews trying, for days on end, to get an emblematic image which would crystallise the event: to no...

A soliloquy by Robert de Niro. The ever same image, the words in seven languages.

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

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

A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state...

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,...

What venture capital or VC for short actually means is explained in the film itself. Banks only lend money against collateral. Those who have none...

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...

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...

Examines monuments scattered all over the world that have become goals for pilgrims and tourists and now serve to meet a whole range of different...

Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their...

A look at how mall producers design malls in order to maximise traffic and sales.

Short documentary vignettes and interviews revolving around cinephile life in Paris.

A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.

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

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 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 series of 32 short scenes, uniformly set in West German instructional and training classes, that show various tasks among the citizenry being done...