- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 9, 1944
- Place of Birth
- Neutitschein, Sudetenland
- Died
- July 30, 2014
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.
Filmography
movieProust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
2026 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Single. A Record is Being Produced
movieSingle. A Record is Being Produced
2025 · Director, Script
movieAbout Narration
2025 · , Director
Make Up
movieMake Up
2025 · Director
Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
movieRemember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
2025 · Director
movieThe Words of the Chairman
2025 · Director, Writer
Labour in a Single Shot
movieLabour in a Single Shot
2020 · Director
movieConfusion
2017 · Director
movieEXPRMNTL
2016 · Himself
movieAs If We Were Somebody Else
2015 · Dramaturgy
movieA German Youth
2015 · Self (archive footage)
moviePhoenix
2014 · Co-Writer
movieHarun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).
2014 · Harun Farocki
movieParallel I–IV
2014 · Director
movieSauerbruch Hutton Architects
2013 · Director
movieA New Product
2012 · Writer, Editor, Director
movieBarbara
2012 · Writer
movieSerious Games 1–4
2011 · Director
Repouring, Variation 1
movieRepouring, Variation 1
2010 · Director
movieSerious Games 2 – Three Dead
2010 · Writer, Director, Editor
movieSerious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow
2010 · Writer, Director, Editor
movieSerious Games 3 – Immersion
2010 · Writer, Editor, Director
movieSerious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"
2010 · Writer, Director, Editor
movieThe Silver and the Cross
2010 · Director
movieIn Comparison
2009 · Director, Writer, Producer, Still Photographer
Feasting or Flying
movieFeasting or Flying
2008 · Director
movieÜbertragung
2007 · Director
movieYella
2007 · Script Editor
movieMemories
2007 · Director, Story, Editor, Producer
movieComparison via a Third
2007 · Director
movieRespite
2007 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieDeep Play
2007 · Director
movieAm Rand der Städte
2006 · Producer
Dubbing
movieDubbing
2006 · Director
On Construction of Griffith’s Films
movieOn Construction of Griffith’s Films
2006 · Director
moviePalette revisited
2005
movieGhosts
2005 · Screenplay, Dramaturgy
A Way
movieA Way
2005 · Director
Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki
movieDocumentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki
2005 · Self
Who is Helene Schwarz?
movieWho is Helene Schwarz?
2005 · Self
movieAufstellung
2005 · Director
movieNothing Ventured
2004 · Director, Screenplay
movieCounter-Music
2004 · Director
tvKulturplatz
2004 · Self
movieWar at a Distance
2003 · Screenplay, Director
movieEye / Machine III
2003 · Screenplay, Director
Starbuck Holger Meins
movieStarbuck Holger Meins
2002 · Self
movieEye / Machine II
2002 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Creators of the Shopping Worlds
2001 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
movieThe State I Am In
2001 · Writer
movieEye / Machine I
2001 · Director, Screenplay
movieI Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
2000 · Screenplay, Director
moviePrison Images
2000 · Director, Screenplay
movieDeutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe
1999 · Producer
What Farocki Taught
movieWhat Farocki Taught
1998 · Writer
movieWords and Games
1998 · Screenplay, Director
Documenta X - Die Filme
movieDocumenta X - Die Filme
1997 · Director
movieThe Expression of Hands
1997 · , Director, Writer
movieStill Life
1997 · Writer, Editor, Director
The Interview
movieThe Interview
1997 · Director
movieCuba Libre
1996 · Screenplay
movieThe Appearance
1996 · Director
movieInterface
1995 · Self, Director, Writer, Producer
moviePilots
1995 · Script Editor
movieWorkers Leaving the Factory
1995 · Narrador, Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe Leading Role
1994 · Director
Re-education
movieRe-education
1994 · Director, Writer
movieA Day in the Life of a Consumer
1993 · Director
Navy Cut
movieNavy Cut
1993
movieCamera and Reality
1992 · Director
movieVideograms of a Revolution
1992 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe Warm Money
1992 · Script Editor
movieImages of the World and the Inscription of War
1991 · Self (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
What’s Up?
movieWhat’s Up?
1991 · Director
Kinostadt Paris
movieKinostadt Paris
1990 · Director
movieHow to Live in the German Federal Republic
1990 · Director
Image und Umsatz, oder: Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen?
movieImage und Umsatz, oder: Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen?
1989 · Director
movieGeorg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
1988 · Self, Director, Writer
movieDie Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen
1987 · Director, Editor
movieIndoctrination
1987 · Director, Writer
movieAs You See
1986 · Director, Writer
movieSchlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
1986 · , Director, Writer
movieFilmbooks
1986 · Director
Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède
movieFilm-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède
1985 · Director
movieBetrayed
1985 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Double Face of Peter Lorre
1984 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieClass Relations
1984 · Delamarche
movieJean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
1983 · , Director, Screenplay, Editor
movieAn Image
1983 · Director
movieStraub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
1983 · , Director
Filme von Peter Weiss
movieFilme von Peter Weiss
1982 · Self, Director, Writer, Editor
movieBefore Your Eyes - Vietnam
1982 · Director
movie"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
1981 · Self
Zeit der langen Nächte
movieZeit der langen Nächte
1981 · Günter
Henry Angst
movieHenry Angst
1980
Putting Things Straight
moviePutting Things Straight
1979
Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss
movieZur Ansicht: Peter Weiss
1979 · Writer, Director
movieThe Taste of Life
1979 · Director
movieIndustry and Photography
1979 · Director
movieCinématon
1978 · N°1068
movieBetween Two Wars
1978 · , Director, Writer
"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
movie"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
1978 · Film director
movieA Picture of Sarah Schumann
1978 · Self / Interviewer, Director, Writer
movieBedtime Stories: Railways
1977 · Director
Bedtime Stories: Cat
movieBedtime Stories: Cat
1977 · Director
movieBedtime Stories: Ships
1977 · Director
movieBedtime Stories: Bridges
1977 · Director
movieEs stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)
1976
movieBent or Broken
1975 · Screenplay
movieAbout ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
1975 · (voice), Writer, Director
movieKampf um ein Kind
1975
Moderatoren im Fernsehen
movieModeratoren im Fernsehen
1974 · Director, Script
movieBrunner ist dran
1973 · Director, Writer
movieThe Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television
1973 · Director
Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen
movieEinmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen
1973 · Director, Writer
movieSomething Self Explanatory (15x)
1971 · , Director, Writer
movieDie Teilung aller Tage
1970 · , Director
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
movieZum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
1970
Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
movieWochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
1969
movieThe Inextinguishable Fire
1969 · , Director, Producer, Screenplay, Editor
movieInstructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets
1969 · Producer, Editor, Director, Writer
movieUntitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin
1969 · Producer, Writer, Director
Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students
movieUntitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students
1968 · Director
Three Shots at Rudi
movieThree Shots at Rudi
1968 · Director
movieTheir Newspapers
1968 · , Director, Writer, Editor
movieBreak the Power of the Manipulators
1968
movieWhite Christmas
1968 · Writer, Editor, Director
movie3000 Houses
1967
movieThe Campaign Volunteer
1967 · Director, Screenplay
Farocki dreht
movieFarocki dreht
1967
movieEverybody a Berliner Kindl
1966 · Writer, Director
movieTwo Paths
1966 · Writer, Director
Grimme Award
tvGrimme Award
1964 · Self
Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
movieCinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
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Häuser 1–2
movieHäuser 1–2
— · Director