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Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and...
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures, the...
In Comparison
Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for...
The Double Face of Peter Lorre
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...
Interface
Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in...
Workers Leaving the Factory
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
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
A documentary film about a Berlin police unit comprised of five former foreign nationals. Their primary areas of operation are neighborhoods with a...
Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe
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...
Single. A Record is Being Produced
Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their...
The Expression of Hands
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.
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
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...
Respite
An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK
"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
A look at how mall producers design malls in order to maximise traffic and sales.
The Creators of the Shopping Worlds
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
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
An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In A Sun With No Shadow, Farocki calls attention to...
Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow
An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Filmed at the United States Marine Corps Air Ground...
Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"
The diagrams used to help represent consumer shopping baskets, the pensions deficit or migration are anachronistic, Farocki posits; Whether...
Aufstellung
A documentation during four days of the creation of a Playboy magazine centerfold photograph from start to finish.
An Image