Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Movies

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage,...

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

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

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

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...

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In A Sun With No Shadow, Farocki calls attention to the...

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

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

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. T...

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 co...

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

Single is not a theoretical treatise; it just uses clips to show how a single is produced. The song is Time to Love, the singers call themselves Witch...

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

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

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

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

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 screens...