Harun Farocki

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Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.

Filmography

• Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026)
• Single. A Record is Being Produced (2025)
• About Narration (2025)
• Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2025)
• Make Up (2025)
• The Words of the Chairman (2025)
• Labour in a Single Shot (2020)
• Confusion (2017)
• EXPRMNTL (2016)
• As If We Were Somebody Else (2015)
• A German Youth (2015)
• Phoenix (2014)
• Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011). (2014)
• Parallel I–IV (2014)
• Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013)
• A New Product (2012)
• Barbara (2012)
• Serious Games 1–4 (2011)
• Repouring, Variation 1 (2010)
• Serious Games 2 – Three Dead (2010)
• Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow (2010)
• Serious Games 3 – Immersion (2010)
• Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" (2010)
• The Silver and the Cross (2010)
• In Comparison (2009)
• Feasting or Flying (2008)
• Übertragung (2007)
• Yella (2007)
• Memories (2007)
• Comparison via a Third (2007)
• Respite (2007)
• Deep Play (2007)
• Am Rand der Städte (2006)
• Dubbing (2006)
• On Construction of Griffith’s Films (2006)
• Palette revisited (2005)
• Ghosts (2005)
• A Way (2005)
• Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki (2005)
• Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)
• Aufstellung (2005)
• Nothing Ventured (2004)
• Counter-Music (2004)
• War at a Distance (2003)
• Eye / Machine III (2003)
• Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)
• Eye / Machine II (2002)
• The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001)
• The State I Am In (2001)
• Eye / Machine I (2001)
• I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (2000)
• Prison Images (2000)
• Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe (1999)
• What Farocki Taught (1998)
• Words and Games (1998)
• Documenta X - Die Filme (1997)
• The Expression of Hands (1997)
• Still Life (1997)
• The Interview (1997)
• Cuba Libre (1996)
• The Appearance (1996)
• Interface (1995)
• Pilots (1995)
• Workers Leaving the Factory (1995)
• The Leading Role (1994)
• Re-education (1994)
• A Day in the Life of a Consumer (1993)
• Navy Cut (1993)
• Camera and Reality (1992)
• Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
• The Warm Money (1992)
• Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991)
• What’s Up? (1991)
• Kinostadt Paris (1990)
• How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1990)
• Image und Umsatz, oder: Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen? (1989)
• Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith (1988)
• Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen (1987)
• Indoctrination (1987)
• As You See (1986)
• Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser (1986)
• Filmbooks (1986)
• Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède (1985)
• Betrayed (1985)
• The Double Face of Peter Lorre (1984)
• Class Relations (1984)
• Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983)
• An Image (1983)
• Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations" (1983)
• Filme von Peter Weiss (1982)
• Before Your Eyes - Vietnam (1982)
• "Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics (1981)
• Zeit der langen Nächte (1981)
• Henry Angst (1980)
• Putting Things Straight (1979)
• Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss (1979)
• The Taste of Life (1979)
• Industry and Photography (1979)
• Cinématon (1978)
• Between Two Wars (1978)
• "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec. (1978)
• A Picture of Sarah Schumann (1978)
• Bedtime Stories: Cat (1977)
• Bedtime Stories: Ships (1977)
• Bedtime Stories: Railways (1977)
• Bedtime Stories: Bridges (1977)
• Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins) (1976)
• Bent or Broken (1975)
• About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright (1975)
• Kampf um ein Kind (1975)
• Moderatoren im Fernsehen (1974)
• Brunner is Next (1973)
• The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television (1973)
• Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen (1973)
• Something Self Explanatory (15x) (1971)
• Die Teilung aller Tage (1970)
• Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (1970)
• Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma (1969)
• The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
• Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets (1969)
• Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin (1969)
• Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students (1968)
• Three Shots at Rudi (1968)
• Their Newspapers (1968)
• Break the Power of the Manipulators (1968)
• White Christmas (1968)
• 3000 Houses (1967)
• The Campaign Volunteer (1967)
• Farocki dreht (1967)
• Everybody a Berliner Kindl (1966)
• Two Paths (1966)
• Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
• Häuser 1–2