Person

Harun Farocki

Directing · 1944–2014 · Neutitschein, Sudetenland

Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.

• Grimme Award

  Self

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  Kulturplatz

  Self

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  Ghosts

  Screenplay

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  Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

  Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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  Barbara

  Writer

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  About Narration

  2025

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  Class Relations

  Delamarche

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  Phoenix

  Co-Writer

• Putting Things Straight

  1979

• Henry Angst

  1980

• 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