Harun Farocki Movies

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

Harun Farocki Interviews Andreas von Rauch, lead actor in Straub-Huillet's "The Death of Empedocles.

Homewreckers' Music Video of "Confusion" directed by Harun Farocki. Image were recycled and edited from Farocki's previous work "Parallel".

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

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

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

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...

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...

Harun Farocki’s work Deep Play is made up of various perspectives on the final of the 2006 World Cup.

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

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...

An ad agency creates a new campaign for a shoe company.

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...

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

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

A few years ago, German artists Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki conducted workshops on the subject of work in 15 cities around the world. The result...

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...

A review of film books old and new.

The diagrams used to help represent consumer shopping baskets, the pensions deficit or migration are anachronistic, Farocki posits; Whether...

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...