Harun Farocki Movies

Examines monuments scattered all over the world that have become goals for pilgrims and tourists and now serve to meet a whole range of different...

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

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

Harun Farocki: Serious Games I–IV (2009–10) explores the use of virtual reality and gaming technology in U.S. military recruitment,...

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...

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...

The diagrams used to help represent consumer shopping baskets, the pensions deficit or migration are anachronistic, Farocki posits; Whether...

An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in Berlin testifies to his openness and generosity.

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

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

Cinema’s onscreen worlds have always borne an indexical bond to the real. What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as...

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

An introduction to films by Peter Weiss: "Study II" (1952) "Study IV" (1954)" According to the Law" (1957) "Shaded Faces" (1956 ) "What should we do...

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...

Refreshingly, Farocki lays his cards on the table at the very beginning of the film, “I want to demonstrate that most feature films are of the...

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

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...

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....