Harun Farocki Movies

Harun Farocki’s work Deep Play is made up of various perspectives on the final of the 2006 World Cup.

A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.

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

Documentary about turkish expats returning to Turkey.

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the...

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...

A film based on the poem of the same name by Georg Heym (1911).

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,...

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

A cinematic interpretation and literary adaptation of a text by Charles Baudelaire. "I had intended that each of the roughly 60 shots would be...

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...

Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties of the revolution" in a biting and witty way.

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in...

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

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

What venture capital or VC for short actually means is explained in the film itself. Banks only lend money against collateral. Those who have none...

A review of film books old and new.