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Harun Farocki

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
43

Gender
Male

Birthday
January 9, 1944 (82 years old)

Place of Birth
Neutitschein, Sudetenland

Harun Farocki

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.

Known For

Directing

2025Single. A Record is Being Produced...Director
2025Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life...Director
2025Make Up...Director
2025About Narration...Director
2025The Words of the Chairman...Director
2020Labour in a Single Shot...Director
2017Confusion...Director
2014Parallel I–IV...Director
2013Sauerbruch Hutton Architects...Director
2012A New Product...Director
2011Serious Games 1–4...Director
2010Repouring, Variation 1...Director
2010The Silver and the Cross...Director
2010Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"...Director
2010Serious Games 2 – Three Dead...Director
2010Serious Games 3 – Immersion...Director
2010Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow...Director
2009In Comparison...Director
2008Feasting or Flying...Director
2007Übertragung...Director
2007Memories...Director
2007Comparison via a Third...Director
2007Respite...Director
2007Deep Play...Director
2006Dubbing...Director
2006On Construction of Griffith’s Films...Director
2005A Way...Director
2005Aufstellung...Director
2004Nothing Ventured...Director
2004Counter-Music...Director
2003War at a Distance...Director
2003Eye / Machine III...Director
2002Eye / Machine II...Director
2001The Creators of the Shopping Worlds...Director
2001Eye / Machine I...Director
2000I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts...Director
2000Prison Images...Director
1998Words and Games...Director
1997Documenta X - Die Filme...Director
1997The Expression of Hands...Director
1997Still Life...Director
1997The Interview...Director
1996The Appearance...Director
1995Interface...Director
1995Workers Leaving the Factory...Director
1994The Leading Role...Director
1994Re-education...Director
1993A Day in the Life of a Consumer...Director
1992Camera and Reality...Director
1992Videograms of a Revolution...Director
1991Images of the World and the Inscription of War...Director
1991What’s Up?...Director
1990Kinostadt Paris...Director
1990How to Live in the German Federal Republic...Director
1989Image und Umsatz, oder: Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen?...Director
1988Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith...Director
1987Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen...Director
1987Indoctrination...Director
1986As You See...Director
1986Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser...Director
1986Filmbooks...Director
1985Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède...Director
1985Betrayed...Director
1984The Double Face of Peter Lorre...Director
1983Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika...Director
1983An Image...Director
1983Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"...Director
1982Filme von Peter Weiss...Director
1982Before Your Eyes - Vietnam...Director
1979Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss...Director
1979The Taste of Life...Director
1979Industry and Photography...Director
1978Between Two Wars...Director
1978A Picture of Sarah Schumann...Director
1977Bedtime Stories: Railways...Director
1977Bedtime Stories: Cat...Director
1977Bedtime Stories: Ships...Director
1977Bedtime Stories: Bridges...Director
1975About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright...Director
1974Moderatoren im Fernsehen...Director
1973Brunner ist dran...Director
1973The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television...Director
1973Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen...Director
1971Something Self Explanatory (15x)...Director
1970Die Teilung aller Tage...Director
1969The Inextinguishable Fire...Director
1969Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin...Director
1969Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets...Director
1968Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students...Director
1968Three Shots at Rudi...Director
1968Their Newspapers...Director
1968White Christmas...Director
1967The Campaign Volunteer...Director
1966Everybody a Berliner Kindl...Director
1966Two Paths...Director
Häuser 1–2...Director

Crew

2025Single. A Record is Being Produced...Script
2015As If We Were Somebody Else...Dramaturgy
2005Ghosts...Dramaturgy
1974Moderatoren im Fernsehen...Script

Writing

2025The Words of the Chairman...Writer
2014Phoenix...Co-Writer
2012A New Product...Writer
2012Barbara...Writer
2010Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"...Writer
2010Serious Games 2 – Three Dead...Writer
2010Serious Games 3 – Immersion...Writer
2010Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow...Writer
2009In Comparison...Writer
2007Yella...Script Editor
2007Memories...Story
2007Respite...Writer
2005Ghosts...Screenplay
2004Nothing Ventured...Screenplay
2003War at a Distance...Screenplay
2003Eye / Machine III...Screenplay
2002Eye / Machine II...Screenplay
2001The Creators of the Shopping Worlds...Writer
2001The State I Am In...Writer
2001Eye / Machine I...Screenplay
2000I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts...Screenplay
2000Prison Images...Screenplay
1998What Farocki Taught...Writer
1998Words and Games...Screenplay
1997The Expression of Hands...Writer
1997Still Life...Writer
1996Cuba Libre...Screenplay
1995Interface...Writer
1995Pilots...Script Editor
1995Workers Leaving the Factory...Writer
1994Re-education...Writer
1992Videograms of a Revolution...Writer
1992The Warm Money...Script Editor
1991Images of the World and the Inscription of War...Writer
1988Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith...Writer
1987Indoctrination...Writer
1986As You See...Writer
1986Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser...Writer
1985Betrayed...Screenplay
1984The Double Face of Peter Lorre...Writer
1983Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika...Screenplay
1982Filme von Peter Weiss...Writer
1979Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss...Writer
1978Between Two Wars...Writer
1978A Picture of Sarah Schumann...Writer
1975Bent or Broken...Screenplay
1975About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright...Writer
1973Brunner ist dran...Writer
1973Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen...Writer
1971Something Self Explanatory (15x)...Writer
1969The Inextinguishable Fire...Screenplay
1969Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin...Writer
1969Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets...Writer
1968Their Newspapers...Writer
1968White Christmas...Writer
1967The Campaign Volunteer...Screenplay
1966Everybody a Berliner Kindl...Writer
1966Two Paths...Writer

Editing

2012A New Product...Editor
2010Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"...Editor
2010Serious Games 2 – Three Dead...Editor
2010Serious Games 3 – Immersion...Editor
2010Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow...Editor
2007Memories...Editor
1997Still Life...Editor
1991Images of the World and the Inscription of War...Editor
1987Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen...Editor
1983Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika...Editor
1982Filme von Peter Weiss...Editor
1969The Inextinguishable Fire...Editor
1969Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets...Editor
1968Their Newspapers...Editor
1968White Christmas...Editor

Production

2009In Comparison...Producer
2007Memories...Producer
2007Respite...Producer
2006Am Rand der Städte...Producer
2001The Creators of the Shopping Worlds...Producer
1999Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe...Producer
1995Interface...Producer
1995Workers Leaving the Factory...Producer
1992Videograms of a Revolution...Producer
1991Images of the World and the Inscription of War...Producer
1984The Double Face of Peter Lorre...Producer
1969The Inextinguishable Fire...Producer
1969Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin...Producer
1969Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets...Producer

Camera

2009In Comparison...Still Photographer
2001The Creators of the Shopping Worlds...Director of Photography

Acting

2026Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturasas Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025About Narrationas
2016EXPRMNTLas Himself
2015A German Youthas Self (archive footage)
2014Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).as Harun Farocki
2005Palette revisitedas
2005Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farockias Self
2005Who is Helene Schwarz?as Self
2004Kulturplatzas Self
2002Starbuck Holger Meinsas Self
1997The Expression of Handsas
1995Interfaceas Self
1995Workers Leaving the Factoryas Narrador
1993Navy Cutas
1991Images of the World and the Inscription of Waras Self (uncredited)
1988Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smithas Self
1986Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusseras
1984Class Relationsas Delamarche
1983Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerikaas
1983Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"as
1982Filme von Peter Weissas Self
1981"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film criticsas Self
1981Zeit der langen Nächteas Günter
1980Henry Angstas
1979Putting Things Straightas
1978Cinématonas N°1068
1978Between Two Warsas
1978"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.as Film director
1978A Picture of Sarah Schumannas Self / Interviewer
1976Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)as
1975About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wrightas (voice)
1975Kampf um ein Kindas
1971Something Self Explanatory (15x)as
1970Die Teilung aller Tageas
1970Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)as
1969Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firmaas
1969The Inextinguishable Fireas
1968Their Newspapersas
1968Break the Power of the Manipulatorsas
19673000 Housesas
1967Farocki drehtas
1964Grimme Awardas Self
Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farockias