Harun Farocki Movies

Interview film with Peter Weiss

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

"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...

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

Images from the maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. A surveillance camera shows a pie-shaped segment of the concrete yard where the...

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...

“Farocki’s ten-minute short film is composed of shots of an AFN DJ at work…and of a car ride, whereby the camera points out of the...

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 city today is as rationalised and regulated as a production process. The images which today determine the day of the city are operative images,...

In the summer of 1996, Farocki filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university...

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

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

“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...

The work centers on the images of the Gulf War which caused worldwide sensation in 1991. In the shots taken from projectiles homing in on their...

In 'As You See', Farocki searches for those instances and facts in the history of technology that have been overlooked or ignored, also exploring the...

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

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...