Harun Farocki Movies

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

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

Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins...

One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken...

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

A young East German woman leaves her controlling husband/business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he...

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the basic...

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

Die Palette was a legendary basement bar at 55 ABC Street, where a colorful crowd of dockworkers, vagrants, students and runaways, artists and petty...

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between...

Farocki revisits the executive trainer from his earlier "Die Schulung" (Indoctrination, 1987), this time holding a seminar with ex-GDR employees of a...

A review of film books old and new.

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....

Harun Farocki’s work Deep Play is made up of various perspectives on the final of the 2006 World Cup.

A documentation during four days of the creation of a Playboy magazine centerfold photograph from start to finish.

“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...

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

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...