Harun Farocki Movies

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,...

This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. Zwei Wege is a cheeky description...

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

A soliloquy by Robert de Niro. The ever same image, the words in seven languages.

The work centers on the images of the Gulf War which caused worldwide sensation in 1991. In the shots taken from projectiles homing in on their...

In 'As You See', Farocki searches for those instances and facts in the history of technology that have been overlooked or ignored, also exploring the...

A review of film books old and new.

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

The new production plants for the daily chat- and game shows are on the periphery; in the case of Unterföhring near Munich on the extension to...

Umgießen (Re-pouring) refers to Tomas Schmit’s performance Zyklus für Wassereimer (oder Flaschen)(Cycle for Water Bucketts (or...

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...

In Eye/Machine II, Farocki has brought together visual material from both military and civilian sectors, showing machines operating intelligently and...