Harun Farocki Movies

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

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the...

Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the...

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

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...

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.

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

Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all...

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".

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...

Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of...

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

A documentary film about a Berlin police unit comprised of five former foreign nationals. Their primary areas of operation are neighborhoods with a...

15-year-old Nike is torn between her wish of belonging to the cool clique around her friend Jess and individual autonomy, which to her is represented...

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...

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

A cinematic interpretation and literary adaptation of a text by Charles Baudelaire. "I had intended that each of the roughly 60 shots would be...

“The make-up artist Serge Lutens is shown covering a model’s face with powder then working it into her face over several minutes. The...

Harun Farocki sits down with Vilém Flusser to discuss the front page of the German tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitung.