Harun Farocki Movies

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

“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....

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

“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...

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

A review of film books old and new.

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...

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,...

According to Fritz J. Raddatz, Rosa Luxemburg cried when she read Marx's concept of value. I was just as disappointed by the Cine-Tracts made in May...

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...

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

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

Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their...

Documentary about the german police force.

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....

A remake, in English of the German film Nicht löschbares Feuer (1969).