Images of the World and the Inscription of War

Images of the World and the Inscription of War

Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and society...

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Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

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Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"

Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Filmed at the United States Marine Corps Air Ground...

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Still Life

Still Life

According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters...

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A Happy Family Life

A Happy Family Life

In Comparison

In Comparison

In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures...

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Serious Games 2 – Three Dead

Serious Games 2 – Three Dead

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Three Dead depicts a military exercise within a mock...

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Interface

Interface

Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video 'about his work'. His creation was an installation for two...

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Henry Angst

Henry Angst

Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow

Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow

An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In A Sun With No Shadow, Farocki calls attention to...

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En passant

En passant

Kinder sind keine Rinder

Kinder sind keine Rinder

A New Product

A New Product

A New Product is a corporate documentary, or, that is, a document of corporate qualities; specifically about what seems to be a small company whose...

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Wages and Love

Wages and Love

A Picture of Sarah Schumann

A Picture of Sarah Schumann

This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer...

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The Wollands

The Wollands

Horst Wolland is a welder in Berlin who tries to move up the career ladder to better provide for his family. He is on the verge of being promoted...

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Single. A Record is Being Produced

Single. A Record is Being Produced

Single is not a theoretical treatise; it just uses clips to show how a single is produced. The song is Time to Love, the singers call themselves...

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Nothing Ventured

Nothing Ventured

What venture capital or VC for short actually means is explained in the film itself. Banks only lend money against collateral. Those who have none...

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Letzte Liebe

Letzte Liebe

Depicts a murky masochistic relationship.

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Serious Games 1–4

Serious Games 1–4

Harun Farocki: Serious Games I–IV (2009–10) explores the use of virtual reality and gaming technology in U.S. military recruitment, training and...

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