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...

"Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The magazine itself deals...

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...

“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...

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....

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a...

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,...

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...

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

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

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...