Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Movies

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video 'about his work'. His creation was an installation for two...

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

Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and...

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new...

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in...

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

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...

A documentation during four days of the creation of a Playboy magazine centerfold photograph from start to finish.

A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect machinery which had...

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

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

In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures, the...

Documentary about the german police force.

An advertising agency has to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by the manager who is the first to see the campaign....

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

Farocki revisits the executive trainer from his earlier "Die Schulung" (Indoctrination, 1987), this time holding a seminar with ex-GDR employees of a...

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for...

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...