Harun Farocki Movies

  • 1990
    How to Live in the German Federal Republic

    How to Live in the German Federal Republic

    How to Live in the German Federal Republic

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

    How to Live in the German Federal Republic
  • 2003
    Eye / Machine III

    Eye / Machine III

    Eye / Machine III

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    The third part of the Eye/Machine cycle structures the material around the concept of the operational image. These are images which do not portray a...

    Eye / Machine III
  • 1994
    Re-education

    Re-education

    Re-education

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

    Re-education
  • 2000
    Prison Images

    Prison Images

    Prison Images

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    A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new...

    Prison Images
  • 1979
    Industry and Photography

    Industry and Photography

    Industry and Photography

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    Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a...

    Industry and Photography
  • 1970
    Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki

    Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki

    Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki

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    Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
  • 1968
    White Christmas

    White Christmas

    White Christmas

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    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...

    White Christmas
  • 2013
    Sauerbruch Hutton Architects

    Sauerbruch Hutton Architects

    Sauerbruch Hutton Architects

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    “The GSW Highrise in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin made the architects Sauerbruch and Hutton well known. The concave slab highrise of 18 floors...

    Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
  • 1970
    Häuser 1–2

    Häuser 1–2

    Häuser 1–2

    01970HD

    Häuser 1–2
  • 1969
    Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets

    Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets

    Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets

    01969HD

    According to Fritz J. Raddatz, Rosa Luxemburg cried when she read Marx's concept of value. I was just as disappointed by the Cine-Tracts made in May...

    Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets
  • 1968
    Their Newspapers

    Their Newspapers

    Their Newspapers

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

    Their Newspapers
  • 1996
    The Appearance

    The Appearance

    The Appearance

    5.81996HD

    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....

    The Appearance
  • 2000
    I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts

    I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts

    I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts

    6.42000HD

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

    I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
  • 1978
    A Picture of Sarah Schumann

    A Picture of Sarah Schumann

    A Picture of Sarah Schumann

    01978HD

    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...

    A Picture of Sarah Schumann
  • 1977
    Bedtime Stories: Bridges

    Bedtime Stories: Bridges

    Bedtime Stories: Bridges

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

    Bedtime Stories: Bridges
  • 1983
    An Image

    An Image

    An Image

    5.61983HD

    "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...

    An Image
  • 1987
    Filmtip: Der Tod des Empedokles

    Filmtip: Der Tod des Empedokles

    Filmtip: Der Tod des Empedokles

    01987HD

    Harun Farocki Interviews Andreas von Rauch, lead actor in Straub-Huillet's "The Death of Empedocles.

    Filmtip: Der Tod des Empedokles
  • 2008
    Feasting or Flying

    Feasting or Flying

    Feasting or Flying

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    Feasting or Flying by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann alludes to the statement: "Some dissect a bird in order to eat it, others in order to discover...

    Feasting or Flying
  • 1972
    Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

    Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

    Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

    01972HD

    “Farocki’s ten-minute short film is composed of shots of an AFN DJ at work…and of a car ride, whereby the camera points out of the...

    Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
  • 2004
    Counter-Music

    Counter-Music

    Counter-Music

    72004HD

    The city today is as rationalised and regulated as a production process. The images which today determine the day of the city are operative images,...

    Counter-Music