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...

An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage,...

Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his previous life into question. As a result, he leaves...

This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. Zwei Wege is a cheeky description...

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

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

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

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video 'about his work'. His creation was an installation for two...

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

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

According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in...

The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Before this can happen, however, he is murdered. The...

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

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....

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest...

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

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

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...

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