Harun Farocki Movies

Short documentary vignettes and interviews revolving around cinephile life in Paris.

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

A documentary film about a Berlin police unit comprised of five former foreign nationals. Their primary areas of operation are neighborhoods with a...

The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Before this can happen, however, he is murdered. The...

Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all...

Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his previous life into question. As a result, he leaves...

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

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...

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

Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. Ideas of fictional research projects in films...

An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage,...

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the...

This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer of...

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...

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for...

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...

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the basic...

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

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the...