Harun Farocki Movies

The work examines the painting Depiction of the Cerro Rico and the Imperial City of Potosí (Oil on canvas, 262 x 181 cm) by Gaspar Miguel des...

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

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

TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky.

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

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...

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....

How a look can be turned toward its goal by grasping and measuring its covetousness is shown in an exemplary fashion in What's Up? in a motif...

Examines monuments scattered all over the world that have become goals for pilgrims and tourists and now serve to meet a whole range of different...

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...

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

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

Advertising posters for the Berliner Kindl brewery in the stands of Berlin’s sports arena show beer drinkers through the ages, from an...

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,...

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...

In On Construction of Griffith' Films we picked a sequence from Griffith Intolerance (1916). It shows a dialogue between a man and a woman, filmed...

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

Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a...