Harun Farocki Movies

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

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...

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...

“The GSW Highrise in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin made the architects Sauerbruch and Hutton well known. The concave slab highrise of 18 floors...

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...

An introduction to films by Peter Weiss: "Study II" (1952) "Study IV" (1954)" According to the Law" (1957) "Shaded Faces" (1956 ) "What should we do...

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...

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...

Single is not a theoretical treatise; it just uses clips to show how a single is produced. The song is Time to Love, the singers call themselves...

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...

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...

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,...

“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,...

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...