Harun Farocki Movies

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

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...

A review of film books old and new.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Documentary about turkish expats returning to Turkey.

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

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...

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 issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

Single is not a theoretical treatise; it just uses clips to show how a single is produced. The song is Time to Love, the singers call themselves...