Harun Farocki
View on IMDb ↗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
Something Self Explanatory (15x)
A Picture of Sarah Schumann
3000 Houses
About Narration
Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)
A German Youth
Kampf um ein Kind
Their Newspapers
Class Relations
Images of the World and the Inscription of WarFilmography (43)
- 2026
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e MisturasSelf (archive footage) (uncredited) - 2025
About Narration - 2016
EXPRMNTLHimself - 2015
A German YouthSelf (archive footage) - 2014
Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).Harun Farocki - 2005Who is Helene Schwarz?Self
- 2005Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun FarockiSelf
- 2005
Palette revisited - 2004
KulturplatzSelf - 2002Starbuck Holger MeinsSelf
- 1997
The Expression of Hands - 1995
InterfaceSelf - 1995
Workers Leaving the FactoryNarrador - 1993Navy Cut
- 1991
Images of the World and the Inscription of WarSelf (uncredited) - 1988
Georg K. Glaser – Writer and SmithSelf - 1986
Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser - 1984
Class RelationsDelamarche - 1983
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika - 1983
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations" - 1982Filme von Peter WeissSelf
- 1981
"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film criticsSelf - 1981Zeit der langen NächteGünter
- 1980Henry Angst
- 1979Putting Things Straight
- 1978
A Picture of Sarah SchumannSelf / Interviewer - 1978
Between Two Wars - 1978"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.Film director
- 1978
CinématonN°1068 - 1976
Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins) - 1975
Kampf um ein Kind - 1975
About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright(voice) - 1971
Something Self Explanatory (15x) - 1970Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
- 1970
Die Teilung aller Tage - 1969
The Inextinguishable Fire - 1969Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
- 1968
Their Newspapers - 1968
Break the Power of the Manipulators - 1967
3000 Houses - 1967Farocki dreht
- 1964Grimme AwardSelf
- —Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
Crew (92)
- 2025Single. A Record is Being ProducedDirector
- 2025Make UpDirector
- 2025Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your LifeDirector
- 2025The Words of the ChairmanWriter
- 2020Labour in a Single ShotDirector
- 2017ConfusionDirector
- 2015As If We Were Somebody ElseDramaturgy
- 2014Parallel I–IVDirector
- 2014PhoenixCo-Writer
- 2013Sauerbruch Hutton ArchitectsDirector
- 2012BarbaraWriter
- 2012A New ProductDirector
- 2011Serious Games 1–4Director
- 2010Serious Games 2 – Three DeadWriter
- 2010Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No ShadowWriter
- 2010Serious Games 3 – ImmersionEditor
- 2010Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"Editor
- 2010The Silver and the CrossDirector
- 2010Repouring, Variation 1Director
- 2009In ComparisonStill Photographer
- 2008Feasting or FlyingDirector
- 2007RespiteProducer
- 2007ÜbertragungDirector
- 2007YellaScript Editor
- 2007MemoriesProducer
- 2007Deep PlayDirector
- 2007Comparison via a ThirdDirector
- 2006Am Rand der StädteProducer
- 2006DubbingDirector
- 2006On Construction of Griffith’s FilmsDirector
- 2005AufstellungDirector
- 2005GhostsDramaturgy
- 2005A WayDirector
- 2004Nothing VenturedDirector
- 2004Counter-MusicDirector
- 2003Eye / Machine IIIScreenplay
- 2003War at a DistanceDirector
- 2002Eye / Machine IIDirector
- 2001Eye / Machine IScreenplay
- 2001The State I Am InWriter
- 2001The Creators of the Shopping WorldsDirector of Photography
- 2000Prison ImagesScreenplay
- 2000I Thought I Was Seeing ConvictsDirector
- 1999Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine TruppeProducer
- 1998Words and GamesDirector
- 1998What Farocki TaughtWriter
- 1997Documenta X - Die FilmeDirector
- 1997Still LifeDirector
- 1997The InterviewDirector
- 1996The AppearanceDirector
- 1996Cuba LibreScreenplay
- 1995PilotsScript Editor
- 1994Re-educationWriter
- 1994The Leading RoleDirector
- 1993A Day in the Life of a ConsumerDirector
- 1992Camera and RealityDirector
- 1992Videograms of a RevolutionProducer
- 1992The Warm MoneyScript Editor
- 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
- 1987Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den StraßenEditor
- 1987IndoctrinationWriter
- 1986As You SeeWriter
- 1986FilmbooksDirector
- 1985BetrayedScreenplay
- 1985Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’ArchimèdeDirector
- 1984The Double Face of Peter LorreProducer
- 1983An ImageDirector
- 1982Before Your Eyes - VietnamDirector
- 1979Zur Ansicht: Peter WeissDirector
- 1979Industry and PhotographyDirector
- 1979The Taste of LifeDirector
- 1977Bedtime Stories: CatDirector
- 1977Bedtime Stories: ShipsDirector
- 1977Bedtime Stories: RailwaysDirector
- 1977Bedtime Stories: BridgesDirector
- 1975Bent or BrokenScreenplay
- 1974Moderatoren im FernsehenScript
- 1973Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von HeftromanenWriter
- 1973Brunner ist dranWriter
- 1973The Trouble with Images. A Critique of TelevisionDirector
- 1969Untitled or: Nixon Comes to BerlinDirector
- 1969Instructions on how to Pull off Police HelmetsWriter
- 1968White ChristmasEditor
- 1968Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering StudentsDirector
- 1968Three Shots at RudiDirector
- 1967The Campaign VolunteerDirector
- 1966Everybody a Berliner KindlWriter
- 1966Two PathsDirector
- —Häuser 1–2Director