Harun Farocki Movies

In 1991, when images of the Gulf War flooded the international media, it was virtually impossible to distinguish between real pictures and those...

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

Cinema’s onscreen worlds have always borne an indexical bond to the real. What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as...

"If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is...

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

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica discuss the visual material of the 1989 Romanian revolution they used for Videogramme einer Revolution (1992) in a...

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

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...

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials...

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...

An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in Berlin testifies to his openness and generosity.

Interview film with Peter Weiss

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...

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...

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

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

The third part of the Eye/Machine cycle structures the material around the concept of the operational image. These are images which do not portray a...