Harun Farocki Movies

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

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...

Vergleich über ein Drittes is about the concept of work, as reflected in the example of the manufacture and processing of bricks. Harun Farocki...

“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...

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...

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

Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons.

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

A few years ago, German artists Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki conducted workshops on the subject of work in 15 cities around the world. The result...

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...

How a look can be turned toward its goal by grasping and measuring its covetousness is shown in an exemplary fashion in What's Up? in a motif...

The work centers on the images of the Gulf War which caused worldwide sensation in 1991. In the shots taken from projectiles homing in on their...

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...

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...

Farocki frequently chooses a single news photo as his pretext. In his film he explains convincingly that 'learning from images' is not so much a...

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

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...

Documentary about turkish expats returning to Turkey.

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