Harun Farocki Filmproduktion Movies

Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and...

Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news...

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.

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....

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

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...

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...

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...

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

"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...

A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect machinery which had...

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

Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons.

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

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

Respite consists of silent black-and-white film shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after...

A series of 32 short scenes, uniformly set in West German instructional and training classes, that show various tasks among the citizenry being done...

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...