Harun Farocki
Birthday: 1944-01-09
Place of Birth: Neutitschein, Sudetenland
Biography: Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.
Movies
Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).
An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in ...
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A Picture of Sarah Schumann
This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. S...
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Kampf um ein Kind
A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work ...
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Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
A behind the scenes film of Class Relations....
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Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they aff...
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Who is Helene Schwarz?
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Telev...
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Interface
Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video 'about his work'...
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About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1...
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The Inextinguishable Fire
An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm....
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Their Newspapers
Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press gr...
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Filmtip: Der Tod des Empedokles
Harun Farocki Interviews Andreas von Rauch, lead actor in Straub-Huillet's "The Death of Empedocles....
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"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika"....
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A German Youth
At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a ge...
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Between Two Wars
A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, abou...
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Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
Harun Farocki sits down with Vilém Flusser to discuss the front page of the German tabloid newspaper...
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Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons....
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Starbuck Holger Meins
Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceas...
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Palette revisited
Die Palette was a legendary basement bar at 55 ABC Street, where a colorful crowd of dockworkers, va...
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Class Relations
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that a...
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Filme von Peter Weiss
An introduction to films by Peter Weiss: "Study II" (1952) "Study IV" (1954)" According to the Law" ...
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3000 Houses
“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action...
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Henry Angst
Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his pre...
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Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties...
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Navy Cut
The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Befo...
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Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1...
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About Narration
Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. I...
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Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest...
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Workers Leaving the Factory
Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point,...
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Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and fo...
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"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK...
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Die Teilung aller Tage
A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He t...
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Something Self Explanatory (15x)
An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value an...
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EXPRMNTL
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Ca...
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Break the Power of the Manipulators
Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign...
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