Harun Farocki Movies

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

A remake, in English of the German film Nicht löschbares Feuer (1969).

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...

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

Vera and Heike are two friends who aspire for a dazzling lifestyle, but don’t own any savings to do so. Vera decides to start stealing from men...

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Filmed at the United States Marine Corps Air Ground...

Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Telekritik documentary approaches were...

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...

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

In 'As You See', Farocki searches for those instances and facts in the history of technology that have been overlooked or ignored, also exploring the...

"Four days spent in a studio working on a centerfold photo for Playboy magazine provided the subject matter for my film. The magazine itself deals...

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

Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".

In the summer of 1996, Farocki filmed application training courses in which one learns how to apply for a job. School drop-outs, university...

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

Respite consists of silent black-and-white film shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after...

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In Immersion, Farocki presents footage of a...