Harun Farocki Movies

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

How a look can be turned toward its goal by grasping and measuring its covetousness is shown in an exemplary fashion in What's Up? in a motif...

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...

Documentary about the german police force.

In the summer of 1996, Farocki filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university...

Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.

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

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

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

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...

A look at how mall producers design malls in order to maximise traffic and sales.

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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