Harun Farocki Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Peter Lorre achieved international fame for his performance in the myth-making role in M. This character has held a peculiar fascination for...

Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. Ideas of fictional research projects in films...

Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.

According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in...

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...

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

One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken...

“The make-up artist Serge Lutens is shown covering a model’s face with powder then working it into her face over several minutes. The...

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the...

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...

Feasting or Flying by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann alludes to the statement: "Some dissect a bird in order to eat it, others in order to discover...

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

Der Wahlhelfer deals with the development of a young trainee lawyer and FDP (Free Democrat Party) supporter who becomes a revolutionary.

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect machinery which had...