Harun Farocki
Born: 1944-01-09 in Neutitschein, Sudetenland
Died: 2014-07-30
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
- About Narration
- Single. A Record is Being Produced ... (Director)
- The Words of the Chairman ... (Director)
- Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life ... (Director)
- Make Up ... (Director)
2020
- Labour in a Single Shot ... (Director)
2017
- Confusion ... (Director)
2016
- EXPRMNTL as Himself
2015
- A German Youth as Self (archive footage)
- As If We Were Somebody Else ... (Dramaturgy)
2014
- Phoenix ... (Co-Writer)
- Parallel I–IV ... (Director)
- Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011). as Harun Farocki
2013
- Sauerbruch Hutton Architects ... (Director)
2012
- Barbara ... (Writer)
- A New Product ... (Writer)
2011
- Serious Games 1–4 ... (Director)
2010
- Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow ... (Writer)
- Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down" ... (Writer)
- Serious Games 3 – Immersion ... (Writer)
- Serious Games 2 – Three Dead ... (Writer)
- The Silver and the Cross ... (Director)
2009
- In Comparison ... (Director)
2008
- Feasting or Flying ... (Director)
2007
- Yella ... (Script Editor)
- Memories ... (Director)
- Comparison via a Third ... (Director)
- Deep Play ... (Director)
- Respite ... (Director)
- Übertragung ... (Director)
2006
- Dubbing ... (Director)
- Am Rand der Städte ... (Producer)
- On Construction of Griffith’s Films ... (Director)
2005
- Ghosts ... (Screenplay)
- Who is Helene Schwarz? as Self
- A Way ... (Director)
- Palette revisited
- Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki as Self
- Aufstellung ... (Director)
2004
- Kulturplatz as Self
- Counter-Music ... (Director)
- Nothing Ventured ... (Director)
2003
- War at a Distance ... (Screenplay)
- Eye / Machine III ... (Screenplay)
2002
- Starbuck Holger Meins as Self
- Eye / Machine II ... (Director)
2001
- The State I Am In ... (Writer)
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds ... (Director)
- Eye / Machine I ... (Director)
2000
- Prison Images ... (Director)
- I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts ... (Screenplay)
1999
- Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe ... (Producer)
1998
- Words and Games ... (Screenplay)
- What Farocki Taught ... (Writer)
1997
- Documenta X - Die Filme ... (Director)
- Still Life ... (Writer)
- The Expression of Hands
- The Interview ... (Director)
1996
- Cuba Libre ... (Screenplay)
- The Appearance ... (Director)
1995
- Pilots ... (Script Editor)
- Workers Leaving the Factory as Narrador
- Interface as Self
1994
- Re-education ... (Director)
- The Leading Role ... (Director)
1993
- A Day in the Life of a Consumer ... (Director)
- Navy Cut
1992
- Videograms of a Revolution ... (Director)
- The Warm Money ... (Script Editor)
1991
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War as Self (uncredited)
- What’s Up? ... (Director)
1990
- Kinostadt Paris ... (Director)
- How to Live in the German Federal Republic ... (Director)
1989
- Image und Umsatz, oder: Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen? ... (Director)
1988
1987
- Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen ... (Director)
- Indoctrination ... (Director)
1986
- As You See ... (Director)
- Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
- Filmbooks ... (Director)
1985
- Betrayed ... (Director)
- Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède ... (Director)
1984
- Class Relations as Delamarche
- The Double Face of Peter Lorre ... (Director)
1983
1982
- Before Your Eyes - Vietnam ... (Director)
- Filme von Peter Weiss as Self
1981
- "Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics as Self
- Zeit der langen Nächte as Günter
1980
1979
- Putting Things Straight
- The Taste of Life ... (Director)
- Industry and Photography ... (Director)
- Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss ... (Writer)
1978
- Cinématon as N°1068
- Between Two Wars
- "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec. as Film director
- A Picture of Sarah Schumann as Self / Interviewer
1977
- Bedtime Stories: Railways ... (Director)
- Bedtime Stories: Bridges ... (Director)
- Bedtime Stories: Ships ... (Director)
- Bedtime Stories: Cat ... (Director)
1975
- Bent or Broken ... (Screenplay)
- Kampf um ein Kind
- About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright as (voice)
1974
- Moderatoren im Fernsehen ... (Director)
1973
- The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television ... (Director)
- Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen ... (Director)
- Brunner ist dran ... (Director)
1970
1969
1968
- Break the Power of the Manipulators
- Their Newspapers
- White Christmas ... (Writer)
- Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students ... (Director)
- Three Shots at Rudi ... (Director)
1967
- Farocki dreht
- The Campaign Volunteer ... (Director)
- 3000 Houses
1966
- Everybody a Berliner Kindl ... (Writer)
- Two Paths ... (Writer)
1964
- Grimme Award as Self