Harun Farocki Movies

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...

Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.

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

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in...

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

"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...

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

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

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...

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

A review of film books old and new.

For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you...

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...

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

In On Construction of Griffith' Films we picked a sequence from Griffith Intolerance (1916). It shows a dialogue between a man and a woman, filmed...

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...

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Filmed at the United States Marine Corps Air Ground...

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...

“Farocki’s ten-minute short film is composed of shots of an AFN DJ at work…and of a car ride, whereby the camera points out of the...