Harun Farocki Movies

A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the light bulbs from the conveyor belt and...

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

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

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

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica discuss the visual material of the 1989 Romanian revolution they used for Videogramme einer Revolution (1992) in a...

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

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...

A New Product is a corporate documentary, or, that is, a document of corporate qualities; specifically about what seems to be a small company whose...

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...

A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.

Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of...

The film Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition's (APO) so-called 'technology campaign' aimed at...

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.

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

Among the "political" filmmakers who got their start in the student movement, Harun Farocki is perhaps the most formally brilliant and conscious, and...

Portrait of German filmmaker Harun Farocki, shot in Paris (France) on July 12, 1988 at 2:15 PM.

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...

Feasting or Flying by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann alludes to the statement: "Some dissect a bird in order to eat it, others in order to discover...