Harun Farocki Movies

A review of film books old and new.

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

Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and...

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...

An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage,...

An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are...

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

Farocki revisits the executive trainer from his earlier "Die Schulung" (Indoctrination, 1987), this time holding a seminar with ex-GDR employees of a...

A look at how mall producers design malls in order to maximise traffic and sales.

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist...

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The...

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

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

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

The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Before this can happen, however, he is murdered. The...

A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state...

Documentary about turkish expats returning to Turkey.

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

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....