Harun Farocki Movies

A series of 32 short scenes, uniformly set in West German instructional and training classes, that show various tasks among the citizenry being done...

According to Fritz J. Raddatz, Rosa Luxemburg cried when she read Marx's concept of value. I was just as disappointed by the Cine-Tracts made in May...

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica discuss the visual material of the 1989 Romanian revolution they used for Videogramme einer Revolution (1992) in a...

A English-language remake of the German film "Nicht löschbares Feuer" (1969).

Among the "political" filmmakers who got their start in the student movement, Harun Farocki is perhaps the most formally brilliant and conscious, and...

In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those...

Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons.

Cinema’s onscreen worlds have always borne an indexical bond to the real. What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as...

The film Wanderkino für Ingenieurstudenten was part of the extra-parliamentary opposition's (APO) so-called 'technology campaign' aimed at...

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...

For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you...

Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of...

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

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

Interview film with Peter Weiss

Images from the maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. A surveillance camera shows a pie-shaped segment of the concrete yard where the...

On Easter 1968 an assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke was carried out. Shortly afterwards street battles resulted throughout West Germany....

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