Harun Farocki Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

Documentary about the german police force.

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,...

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

An introduction to films by Peter Weiss: "Study II" (1952) "Study IV" (1954)" According to the Law" (1957) "Shaded Faces" (1956 ) "What should we do...

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...

In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those...

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

Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Telekritik documentary approaches were...

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...

Der Wahlhelfer deals with the development of a young trainee lawyer and FDP (Free Democrat Party) supporter who becomes a revolutionary.

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...

I was on a ship – this sounds like a novel: I had just embarked for Venezuela on June 2, 1967 as the Shah of Iran was arriving in West Berlin....

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