Harun Farocki Movies

A review of film books old and new.

A minute-by-minute chronology of the Romanian revolution in December 1989 in Bucharest. This cinematic montage of live footage from the state...

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...

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In Immersion, Farocki presents footage of a...

Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all...

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

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...

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...

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the...

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect machinery which had...

Previously focused on Asian directors, “Jeonju Digital Project 2007” takes a look at Europe. The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa, the...

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

Homewreckers' Music Video of "Confusion" directed by Harun Farocki. Image were recycled and edited from Farocki's previous work "Parallel".

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

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

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...