Harun Farocki Movies

A New Product is a corporate documentary, or, that is, a document of corporate qualities; specifically about what seems to be a small company whose...

In Eye/Machine II, Farocki has brought together visual material from both military and civilian sectors, showing machines operating intelligently and...

What venture capital or VC for short actually means is explained in the film itself. Banks only lend money against collateral. Those who have none...

Historically, the cinema close-up was initially employed to convey emotions through facial expressions. But soon filmmakers also began focusing their...

The new production plants for the daily chat- and game shows are on the periphery; in the case of Unterföhring near Munich on the extension to...

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between...

Examines monuments scattered all over the world that have become goals for pilgrims and tourists and now serve to meet a whole range of different...

Harun Farocki: Serious Games I–IV (2009–10) explores the use of virtual reality and gaming technology in U.S. military recruitment,...

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between...

This film is about a five-day seminar designed to teach executives how to "sell themselves" better. This course, designed for managers, teaches the...

This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer of...

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

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between...

The third part of the Eye/Machine cycle structures the material around the concept of the operational image. These are images which do not portray a...

This short piece for the television station Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) is highly relevant to Farocki's later work. Zwei Wege is a cheeky description...

The city today is as rationalised and regulated as a production process. The images which today determine the day of the city are operative images,...

An advertising agency has to pitch a marketing concept to an optician's consortium, represented by the manager who is the first to see the campaign....

“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...