Harun Farocki Movies

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

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...

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

The new production plants for the daily chat- and game shows are on the periphery; in the case of Unterföhring near Munich on the extension to...

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

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

A review of film books old and new.

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

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In Immersion, Farocki presents footage 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...

An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in Berlin testifies to his openness and generosity.

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

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

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

In "Before your Eyes - Vietnam", a voice-over talks about war as basically an experiment, not unlike film itself.

Vergleich über ein Drittes is about the concept of work, as reflected in the example of the manufacture and processing of bricks. Harun Farocki...

A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the light bulbs from the conveyor belt and...