Harun Farocki Movies

Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and...

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

Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in...

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

Die Palette was a legendary basement bar at 55 ABC Street, where a colorful crowd of dockworkers, vagrants, students and runaways, artists and petty...

A young East German woman leaves her controlling husband/business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he...

Harun Farocki’s work Deep Play is made up of various perspectives on the final of the 2006 World Cup.

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...

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

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...

A documentary film about a Berlin police unit comprised of five former foreign nationals. Their primary areas of operation are neighborhoods with a...

Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the...

An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage,...

A review of film books old and new.

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist...

Short documentary vignettes and interviews revolving around cinephile life in Paris.

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

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

I was on a ship – this sounds like a novel: I had just embarked for Venezuela on June 2, 1967 as the Shah of Iran was arriving in West Berlin....

A soliloquy by Robert de Niro. The ever same image, the words in seven languages.