Harun Farocki Movies

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

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

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those...

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband...

In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures, the...

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

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

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are...

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

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".

A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He takes the light bulbs from the conveyor belt and...

A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.

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

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...

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...

15-year-old Nike is torn between her wish of belonging to the cool clique around her friend Jess and individual autonomy, which to her is represented...