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Harun Farocki

Harun FAROCKI (1944-2014, Germany) studied at the Film and TV Academy in Berlin. He made about 70 films in various genres from 1965 onwards. From 1973 to 1984, he wrote for the film journal Filmkritik. Most of his films are ‘essays’ on sociological or political themes. Farocki participated in various solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries. He taught at the University of Berkeley and later became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He passed away in 2014.

Filmografie

(selection) Jeder ein Berliner Kindl (1966, short), Zwei Wege (1966, short), Die Worte des Vorsitzenden (1967, short), Ihre Zeitungen (1968), Nicht löschbares Feuer (1969), Die Teilung aller Tage (1970), Eine Sache, die sich versteht (1971), Der Aerger mit den Bildern (1973), Zwischen zwei Kriegen (1978), Zur Ansicht Peter Weiss (1979), Der Geschmack des Lebens (1979, short), Etwas wird sichtbar (1982), Jean-Marie Straub et Danielle Huillet drehen einen Film nach Franz Kafkas Amerika (1983, short), Peter Lorre: das doppelte Gesicht (1984), Wie man sieht (1986), Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (1989), Leben BRD (1989), Videogramme einer Revolution (1992), Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik (1995, short), Schnitstelle (1995), Die Bewerbung/The Application (1997), Gefängnisbilder/Prison Images (2001), Die Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten/The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001), Erkennen und Verfolgen (2003), Nicht ohne Risiko (2004), Zum Vergleich (2009)

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  • Videogramme einer Revolution

    Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | 107' | Germany | None

    Reconstruction of a revolution. During the fall of Ceausescu in Romania in 1989, demonstrators took over state television to broadcast their revolutio

  • Out of the Present

    Andrei Ujica | 95' | Germany | None

    Exciting moment in history with cosmonauts who left as Soviet citizens and returned as Russians.

  • Videogramme einer Revolution

    Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica | 107' | Germany | -

    Reconstruction of a revolution. During the fall of Ceausescu in Romania in 1989, demonstrators took over state television to broadcast their revolutio

  • Ich glaubte, Gefangene zu sehen

    Harun Farocki | Germany | -

    In this work, the maker emphasises the social bond between the one holding the weapon and the one who uses a camera. The video is…

  • Die innere Sicherheit

    Christian Petzold | 107' | Germany | -

    Oppressive film in which a girl has to live with parents who are being sought by the police. But she still wants to be free…

  • Gefängnisbilder

    Harun Farocki | 61' | Germany | None

    Before the rest of the world was confronted with the omnipresence of cameras, prisons were filled with surveillance equipment to spy on the inmates. I

  • Jeder ein Berliner Kindl

    Harun Farocki | 4' | Germany | None

    A short parody on advertising Farocki made as a film student, before he was expelled from the Deutsche Film und Fernsehenakademie Berlin (DFFB).

  • Zwei Wege

    Harun Farocki | 3' | Germany | None

    Zwei Wegeis a description of an oil painting. Farocki uses the camera in effect to dissect a religious allegory.

  • Erkennen und Verfolgen

    Harun Farocki | 54' | Germany | -

    Since the Gulf War in 1991, warfare and reporting it have become hyper technological affairs, in which real and computer-generated images cannot be distinguished any…

  • Schnittstelle

    Harun Farocki | 25' | France | -

    Film-maker Farocki lets us look over his shoulder as he is editing.