Harun Farocki Movies

A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect machinery which had...

An ad agency creates a new campaign for a shoe company.

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...

Short documentary vignettes and interviews revolving around cinephile life in Paris.

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...

A review of film books old and new.

1989, the fall of the Berlin wall. Television crews trying, for days on end, to get an emblematic image which would crystallise the event: to no...

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...

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...

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

Documentary about the german police force.

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

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

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Three Dead depicts a military exercise within a mock...