Harun Farocki Filmes

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 composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new...

Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video 'about his work'. His creation was an installation for two...

A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her...

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...

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

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...

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic....

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...

A look at how mall producers design malls in order to maximise traffic and sales.

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

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...

The diagrams used to help represent consumer shopping baskets, the pensions deficit or migration are anachronistic, Farocki posits; Whether...

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

Images from the maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. A surveillance camera shows a pie-shaped segment of the concrete yard where the...