Harun Farocki Movies

One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken...

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".

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.

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

On Easter 1968 an assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke was carried out. Shortly afterwards street battles resulted throughout West Germany....

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...

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...

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic....

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 educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are...

The third part of the Eye/Machine cycle structures the material around the concept of the operational image. These are images which do not portray a...

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

TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky.

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...

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

Examines monuments scattered all over the world that have become goals for pilgrims and tourists and now serve to meet a whole range of different...

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

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