Harun Farocki Movies

Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons.

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

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...

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

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

Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the...

In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those...

Cinema’s onscreen worlds have always borne an indexical bond to the real. What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as...

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

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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

A New Product is a corporate documentary, or, that is, a document of corporate qualities; specifically about what seems to be a small company whose...