Harun Farocki Movies

"As if pictures could think! Einschlafgeschichten doesn't really speak of bridges or railroads but rather of two girls filling the space between...

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

An issue of the magazine Kino 81, designed for the film department of WDR by staff of FILMKRITIK

One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken...

Der Wahlhelfer deals with the development of a young trainee lawyer and FDP (Free Democrat Party) supporter who becomes a revolutionary.

Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the...

Scenes relating to a theater production on the nazi era in Germany.

Respite consists of silent black-and-white film shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after...

A cinematic interpretation and literary adaptation of a text by Charles Baudelaire. "I had intended that each of the roughly 60 shots would be...

15-year-old Nike is torn between her wish of belonging to the cool clique around her friend Jess and individual autonomy, which to her is represented...

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new...

A English-language remake of the German film "Nicht löschbares Feuer" (1969).

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the...

A documentation during four days of the creation of a Playboy magazine centerfold photograph from start to finish.

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

“The make-up artist Serge Lutens is shown covering a model’s face with powder then working it into her face over several minutes. The...

Advertising posters for the Berliner Kindl brewery in the stands of Berlin’s sports arena show beer drinkers through the ages, from an...

A West Berlin doctor, married with a two-year-old child, leaves her husband to go to Munich to work in the birth clinic of a hospital. Her husband...