Harun Farocki
Date of birth: 1944-01-09
Place of birth: Neutitschein, Sudetenland
Known for: Directing
Also known as: Rosa Mercedes, Mercedes Rossa
Biography
Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.
Movie Credits
Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).
2014-08-30
An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in
A Picture of Sarah Schumann
1978-04-01
This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. S
Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki
2005-03-04
Kampf um ein Kind
1975-03-27
A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
1983-01-01
A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
1991-11-13
Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they aff
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005-02-13
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Telev
Interface
1995-11-08
Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video 'about his work'
About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
1975-10-07
Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1
The Inextinguishable Fire
1969-07-26
An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.
Their Newspapers
1968-06-30
Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press gr
Filmtip: Der Tod des Empedokles
1987-10-08
Harun Farocki Interviews Andreas von Rauch, lead actor in Straub-Huillet's "The Death of Empedocles.
"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
1978-09-20
Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".
A German Youth
2015-05-15
At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a ge
Between Two Wars
1978-11-05
A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, abou
Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
1986-05-01
Harun Farocki sits down with Vilém Flusser to discuss the front page of the German tabloid newspaper
Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
1988-09-20
Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons.
Starbuck Holger Meins
2002-05-23
Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceas
Palette revisited
2005-10-19
Die Palette was a legendary basement bar at 55 ABC Street, where a colorful crowd of dockworkers, va
Class Relations
1984-02-21
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that a
Filme von Peter Weiss
1982-04-05
An introduction to films by Peter Weiss: "Study II" (1952) "Study IV" (1954)" According to the Law"
Farocki dreht
1967-01-01
3000 Houses
1967-12-31
“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action
Henry Angst
1980-02-09
Henry Angst receives a farewell letter that promises an unspeakably cheerful death and calls his pre
Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
1970-02-01
Straschek's film points to the gap between workers and intellectuals and describes the "difficulties
Navy Cut
1993-02-18
The revolution is as good as over, but the captain wants to send his crew into one last battle. Befo
Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
1969-10-01
Film by a student collective of the dffb.
About Narration
2025-09-28
Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. I
Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest
Workers Leaving the Factory
1995-04-02
Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point,
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
1983-11-13
This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and fo
"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
1981-05-14
An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK
Die Teilung aller Tage
1970-04-17
A worker is sitting at a conveyor belt on which light bulbs are coming in at regular intervals. He t
Something Self Explanatory (15x)
1971-06-28
An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value an
Putting Things Straight
1979-12-23
Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
EXPRMNTL
2016-10-08
Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Ca
Break the Power of the Manipulators
1968-01-01
Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign