Harun Farocki
Also Known As: Rosa Mercedes, Mercedes Rossa
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Neutitschein, Sudetenland
Adult: No
Deathday: July 30, 2014
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Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).
Overview: An homage to Harun Farocki, who left us too soon. I hope this memory of a wonderful summer night in Berlin testifies to his openness and generosity.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-30
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A Picture of Sarah Schumann
Overview: This Harun Farocki film shows the creation of a picture on which the artist worked for nine weeks. Sarah Schumann lives in Berlin and is a pioneer of the feminist scene. 1977 together with several other artists she organized the first large exhibition in which only work by women was shown. Sarah Schumann paints figuratively, that is to say she has developed a technique using layers of collage and painting worked on top of and into one another. Regarding a picture becomes an adventure. (harunfarocki.de)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-04-01
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Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-03-04
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Kampf um ein Kind
Overview: 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 doesn’t know that she’s pregnant with their second child. Will she have to choose between motherhood and her career?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
Overview: A behind the scenes film of Class Relations.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Overview: Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and society. In a work reminiscent of the writings of Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, Farocki examines a range of phenomena including aerial reconnaissance photos of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-11-13
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Who is Helene Schwarz?
Overview: Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The path of Helen’s career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (who later became a member of the Red Army Faction) as well as directors Wolfgang Becker, Detlev Buck and Christian Petzold. All have fond memories of forgetting their troubles after having poured their hearts out over a cup of coffee in Helene’s office – for Helene was both friend and advisor to countless film students.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-13
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Interface
Overview: Harun Farocki was commissioned by the Lille Museum of Modern Art to produce a video 'about his work'. His creation was an installation for two screens that was presented within the scope for the 1995 exhibition The World of Photography. The work Schnittstelle developed out of that installation. Reflecting on Farocki's own documentary work, it examines the question of what it means to work with existing images rather than producing one's own, new images. The title plays on the double meaning of 'Schnitt', referring both to Farocki's workplace, the editing table, as well as the 'human-machine interface', where a person operates a computer using a keyboard and a mouse.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-11-08
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About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
Overview: Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Telekritik documentary approaches were analysed and made available for a critique of contemporary TV, its aesthetics and modes of production. Other authors for the series include Hartmut Bitomsky, Rainer Gansera and Klaus Wildenhahn.In the 30-minute movie, Farocki shows and comments on excerpts from the film Song of Ceylon by Basil Wright (and a short segment of Eisenstein's Mexico-fragments). Farocki's voice-over describes part of the movie, focussing on details and montage. He also uses didactic and descriptive drawings and intertitles to confront the classic documentary and its stylistic approaches with contemporary TV.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-10-07
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The Inextinguishable Fire
Overview: An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-07-26
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Their Newspapers
Overview: Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the Berliner Zeitung and the Bild Zeitung. Claiming the latter were manipulating public opinion, the students laid siege to the publisher's offices. These events made a strong impression on the German collective conscience, and it's in this context that Farocki made this "agit-prop" film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-06-30
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Filmtip: Der Tod des Empedokles
Overview: Harun Farocki Interviews Andreas von Rauch, lead actor in Straub-Huillet's "The Death of Empedocles.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-10-08
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"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
Overview: Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika".
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-20
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A German Youth
Overview: At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journalist Ulrike Meinhof, lawyer Horst Mahler, filmmaker Holger Meins as well as students Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-02-07
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Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
Overview: Harun Farocki sits down with Vilém Flusser to discuss the front page of the German tabloid newspaper Bild Zeitung.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-05-01
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Between Two Wars
Overview: A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect machinery which had to run itself to the point of its own destruction.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-05
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Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
Overview: Portrait of Georg Glaser, who is a writer in the mornings and a blacksmith in the afternoons.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-09-20
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Starbuck Holger Meins
Overview: Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstances resulted in his death, a death which made him the declared symbol of the radical opposition in Germany? What remains of his legacy?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-05-23
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Palette revisited
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-10-19
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Class Relations
Overview: A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-21
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Filme von Peter Weiss
Overview: An introduction to films by Peter Weiss: "Study II" (1952) "Study IV" (1954)" According to the Law" (1957) "Shaded Faces" (1956 ) "What should we do now? "(1958).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-04-05
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Farocki dreht
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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3000 Houses
Overview: “Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic. In the end everybody goes their own way and leaves the city.” - Hartmut Bitomsky
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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Henry Angst
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-02-09
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Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-02-01
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Navy Cut
Overview: Film by Wolfgang Schmidt.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-02-18
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Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
Overview: Film by a student collective of the dffb.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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About Narration
Overview: Interdisciplinary studies put into practice is a plane on which HaF's interests and mine coincide. Ideas of fictional research projects in films emerge very early on, or of film as research device, allowing people from different disciplines to come together and discover something, to pursue a line of thought, or just be adventurous. These ideas correspond to a tendency we both have of accumulating knowledge from different sciences, for example so as to bring exact sciences like medicine together with subjects which aren't directly aimed at application, such as religious studies or anthropology.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-12-16
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Workers Leaving the Factory
Overview: Using one of the Lumière Brothers' first films of workers leaving the Factory as his starting point, Farocki provides an insight to changes in industrial production, workers' strikes and motion pictures-- via images of workers leaving factories throughout the years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-04-02
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Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
Overview: This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-11-13
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Kino 81
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-05-14
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Die Teilung aller Tage
Overview: TV movie by Farocki and Bitomsky.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Something Self Explanatory (15x)
Overview: An educational film about an aspect of political economy. The concepts of use value, barter value and labor as a commodity are the subjects; they are intended to introduce the process of understanding the theory of value of work and the law of values, alienation and fetish.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-06-28
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Putting Things Straight
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-12-23
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Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
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Original Language: fr
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EXPRMNTL
Overview: Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. To celebrate cinema’s 50 year existence, they put together a side program showcasing the medium in all its shapes and forms: surrealist film, absolute film, dadaist films, abstract film,… The side program would soon become a festival in its own right: ‘EXPRMNTL’, dedicated to experimental cinema, and would become a mythical gathering of the avant-garde…
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-08
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