Person
Harun Farocki
Directing · 1944–2014 · Neutitschein, Sudetenland
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.
Known for
Kulturplatz
Self
Grimme Award
Self
The State I Am In
Writer
In Comparison
Director
About Narration
2025
Ghosts
Screenplay
Phoenix
Co-Writer
Kinostadt Paris
Director
Palette revisited
2005
Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)
1976
Filmography
- 2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e MisturasSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2025Single. A Record is Being ProducedScript
- 2025About Narration
- 2025Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your LifeDirector
- 2025Make UpDirector
- 2025The Words of the ChairmanDirector
- 2020Labour in a Single ShotDirector
- 2017ConfusionDirector
- 2016EXPRMNTLHimself
- 2015As If We Were Somebody ElseDramaturgy
- 2015A German YouthSelf (archive footage)
- 2014PhoenixCo-Writer
- 2014Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).Harun Farocki
- 2014Parallel I–IVDirector
- 2013Sauerbruch Hutton ArchitectsDirector
- 2012A New ProductEditor
- 2012BarbaraWriter
- 2011Serious Games 1–4Director
- 2010Repouring, Variation 1Director
- 2010Serious Games 2 – Three DeadDirector
- 2010Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No ShadowDirector
- 2010Serious Games 3 – ImmersionDirector
- 2010Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"Director
- 2010The Silver and the CrossDirector
- 2009In ComparisonDirector
- 2008Feasting or FlyingDirector
- 2007ÜbertragungDirector
- 2007YellaScript Editor
- 2007MemoriesDirector
- 2007Comparison via a ThirdDirector
- 2007RespiteDirector
- 2007Deep PlayDirector
- 2006Am Rand der StädteProducer
- 2006DubbingDirector
- 2006On Construction of Griffith’s FilmsDirector
- 2005Palette revisited
- 2005GhostsScreenplay
- 2005A WayDirector
- 2005Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun FarockiSelf
- 2005Who is Helene Schwarz?Self
- 2005AufstellungDirector
- 2004Nothing VenturedScreenplay
- 2004Counter-MusicDirector
- 2004KulturplatzSelf
- 2003War at a DistanceScreenplay
- 2003Eye / Machine IIIDirector
- 2002Starbuck Holger MeinsSelf
- 2002Eye / Machine IIScreenplay
- 2001The Creators of the Shopping WorldsDirector
- 2001The State I Am InWriter
- 2001Eye / Machine IDirector
- 2000I Thought I Was Seeing ConvictsScreenplay
- 2000Prison ImagesDirector
- 1999Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine TruppeProducer
- 1998What Farocki TaughtWriter
- 1998Words and GamesScreenplay
- 1997Documenta X - Die FilmeDirector
- 1997The Expression of Hands
- 1997Still LifeWriter
- 1997The InterviewDirector
- 1996Cuba LibreScreenplay
- 1996The AppearanceDirector
- 1995InterfaceSelf
- 1995PilotsScript Editor
- 1995Workers Leaving the FactoryNarrador
- 1994The Leading RoleDirector
- 1994Re-educationDirector
- 1993A Day in the Life of a ConsumerDirector
- 1993Navy Cut
- 1992Camera and RealityDirector
- 1992Videograms of a RevolutionDirector
- 1992The Warm MoneyScript Editor
- 1991Images of the World and the Inscription of WarSelf (uncredited)
- 1991What’s Up?Director
- 1990Kinostadt ParisDirector
- 1990How to Live in the German Federal RepublicDirector
- 1989Image und Umsatz, oder: Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen?Director
- 1988Georg K. Glaser – Writer and SmithSelf
- 1987Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den StraßenDirector
- 1987IndoctrinationDirector
- 1986As You SeeDirector
- 1986Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
- 1986FilmbooksDirector
- 1985Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’ArchimèdeDirector
- 1985BetrayedDirector
- 1984The Double Face of Peter LorreDirector
- 1984Class RelationsDelamarche
- 1983Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
- 1983An ImageDirector
- 1983Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
- 1982Filme von Peter WeissSelf
- 1982Before Your Eyes - VietnamDirector
- 1981"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film criticsSelf
- 1981Zeit der langen NächteGünter
- 1980Henry Angst
- 1979Putting Things Straight
- 1979Zur Ansicht: Peter WeissWriter
- 1979The Taste of LifeDirector
- 1979Industry and PhotographyDirector
- 1978CinématonN°1068
- 1978Between Two Wars
- 1978"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.Film director
- 1978A Picture of Sarah SchumannSelf / Interviewer
- 1977Bedtime Stories: CatDirector
- 1977Bedtime Stories: ShipsDirector
- 1977Bedtime Stories: RailwaysDirector
- 1977Bedtime Stories: BridgesDirector
- 1976Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)
- 1975Bent or BrokenScreenplay
- 1975About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright(voice)
- 1975Kampf um ein Kind
- 1974Moderatoren im FernsehenDirector
- 1973Brunner ist dranDirector
- 1973The Trouble with Images. A Critique of TelevisionDirector
- 1973Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von HeftromanenDirector
- 1971Something Self Explanatory (15x)
- 1970Die Teilung aller Tage
- 1970Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
- 1969Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
- 1969The Inextinguishable Fire
- 1969Instructions on how to Pull off Police HelmetsEditor
- 1969Untitled or: Nixon Comes to BerlinWriter
- 1968Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering StudentsDirector
- 1968Three Shots at RudiDirector
- 1968Their Newspapers
- 1968Break the Power of the Manipulators
- 1968White ChristmasWriter
- 19673000 Houses
- 1967The Campaign VolunteerScreenplay
- 1967Farocki dreht
- 1966Everybody a Berliner KindlDirector
- 1966Two PathsWriter
- 1964Grimme AwardSelf
- —Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
- —Häuser 1–2Director
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