Harun Farocki

Poster

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.

Personal Facts

Known For: Directing
Gender: male
Known Credits: 230
Birth Date: 1944-01-09 00:00:00
Birth Place: Neutitschein, Sudetenland

Known For

Credits

directing (96 credits)
- Häuser 1–2
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2026
- Single. A Record is Being Produced
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2025
- About Narration
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2025
- Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2025
- Make Up
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2025
- The Words of the Chairman
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2025
- Labour in a Single Shot
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2020
- Confusion
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2017
- Parallel I–IV
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2014
- Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2013
- A New Product
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2012
- Serious Games 1–4
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2011
- Repouring, Variation 1
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 2 – Three Dead
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 3 – Immersion
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2010
- The Silver and the Cross
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2010
- In Comparison
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2009
- Feasting or Flying
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2008
- Übertragung
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2007
- Memories
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2007
- Comparison via a Third
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2007
- Respite
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2007
- Deep Play
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2007
- Dubbing
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2006
- On Construction of Griffith’s Films
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2006
- A Way
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2005
- Aufstellung
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2005
- Nothing Ventured
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2004
- Counter-Music
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2004
- War at a Distance
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2003
- Eye / Machine III
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2003
- Eye / Machine II
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2002
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2001
- Eye / Machine I
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2001
- I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2000
- Prison Images
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  2000
- Words and Games
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1998
- Documenta X - Die Filme
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1997
- The Expression of Hands
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1997
- Still Life
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1997
- The Interview
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1997
- The Appearance
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1996
- Interface
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1995
- Workers Leaving the Factory
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1995
- The Leading Role
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1994
- Re-education
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1994
- A Day in the Life of a Consumer
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1993
- Camera and Reality
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1992
- Videograms of a Revolution
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1992
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1991
- What’s Up?
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1991
- Kinostadt Paris
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1990
- How to Live in the German Federal Republic
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1990
- Image und Umsatz, oder: Wie kann man einen Schuh darstellen?
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1989
- Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1988
- Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1987
- Indoctrination
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1987
- As You See
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1986
- Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1986
- Filmbooks
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1986
- Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1985
- Betrayed
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1985
- The Double Face of Peter Lorre
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1984
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1983
- An Image
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1983
- Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1983
- Filme von Peter Weiss
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1982
- Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1982
- Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1979
- The Taste of Life
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1979
- Industry and Photography
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1979
- Between Two Wars
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1978
- A Picture of Sarah Schumann
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1978
- Bedtime Stories: Cat
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1977
- Bedtime Stories: Ships
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1977
- Bedtime Stories: Railways
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1977
- Bedtime Stories: Bridges
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1977
- About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1975
- Moderatoren im Fernsehen
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1974
- Brunner ist dran
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1973
- Something Self Explanatory (15x)
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1971
- Die Teilung aller Tage
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1970
- The Inextinguishable Fire
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1969
- Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Three Shots at Rudi
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- Their Newspapers
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- White Christmas
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1968
- The Campaign Volunteer
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1967
- Everybody a Berliner Kindl
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
- Two Paths
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1966
actors (41 credits)
- Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
  Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2026
- About Narration
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- EXPRMNTL
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- A German Youth
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2015
- Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).
  Harun Farocki
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2014
- Palette revisited
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Who is Helene Schwarz?
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2005
- Starbuck Holger Meins
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- The Expression of Hands
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Interface
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Workers Leaving the Factory
  Narrador
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1995
- Navy Cut
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1993
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War
  Self (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1988
- Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- Class Relations
  Delamarche
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1984
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1983
- Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1983
- Filme von Peter Weiss
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1982
- "Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- Zeit der langen Nächte
  Günter
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1981
- Henry Angst
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1980
- Putting Things Straight
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1979
- Cinématon
  N°1068
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- Between Two Wars
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.
  Film director
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- A Picture of Sarah Schumann
  Self / Interviewer
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1978
- Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
  (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1975
- Kampf um ein Kind
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1975
- Something Self Explanatory (15x)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1971
- Die Teilung aller Tage
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1970
- Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1970
- Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1969
- The Inextinguishable Fire
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1969
- Their Newspapers
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1968
- Break the Power of the Manipulators
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1968
- 3000 Houses
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1967
- Farocki dreht
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1967
crew (4 credits)
- Single. A Record is Being Produced
  
  script
  
  crew
  
  2025
- As If We Were Somebody Else
  
  dramaturgy
  
  crew
  
  2015
- Ghosts
  
  dramaturgy
  
  crew
  
  2005
- Moderatoren im Fernsehen
  
  script
  
  crew
  
  1974
writing (58 credits)
- The Words of the Chairman
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2025
- Phoenix
  
  co-writer
  
  writing
  
  2014
- A New Product
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2012
- Barbara
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2012
- Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 3 – Immersion
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 2 – Three Dead
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2010
- In Comparison
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2009
- Yella
  
  script editor
  
  writing
  
  2007
- Memories
  
  story
  
  writing
  
  2007
- Respite
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2007
- Ghosts
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2005
- Nothing Ventured
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2004
- War at a Distance
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2003
- Eye / Machine III
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2003
- Eye / Machine II
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2002
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2001
- The State I Am In
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2001
- Eye / Machine I
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2001
- I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2000
- Prison Images
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  2000
- What Farocki Taught
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1998
- Words and Games
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1998
- The Expression of Hands
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1997
- Still Life
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1997
- Cuba Libre
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1996
- Interface
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1995
- Pilots
  
  script editor
  
  writing
  
  1995
- Workers Leaving the Factory
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1995
- Re-education
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1994
- Videograms of a Revolution
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1992
- The Warm Money
  
  script editor
  
  writing
  
  1992
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1991
- Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1988
- Indoctrination
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1987
- As You See
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1986
- Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1986
- Betrayed
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1985
- The Double Face of Peter Lorre
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1984
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1983
- Filme von Peter Weiss
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1982
- Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1979
- Between Two Wars
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1978
- A Picture of Sarah Schumann
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1978
- Bent or Broken
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1975
- About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1975
- Brunner ist dran
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1973
- Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1973
- Something Self Explanatory (15x)
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1971
- The Inextinguishable Fire
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1969
- Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1969
- Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1969
- Their Newspapers
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1968
- White Christmas
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1968
- The Campaign Volunteer
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1967
- Everybody a Berliner Kindl
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1966
- Two Paths
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1966
editing (15 credits)
- A New Product
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2012
- Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 2 – Three Dead
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 3 – Immersion
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2010
- Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2010
- Memories
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2007
- Still Life
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1997
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1991
- Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1987
- Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1983
- Filme von Peter Weiss
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1982
- The Inextinguishable Fire
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1969
- Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1969
- Their Newspapers
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1968
- White Christmas
  
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1968
production (14 credits)
- In Comparison
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  2009
- Memories
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  2007
- Respite
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  2007
- Am Rand der Städte
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  2006
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  2001
- Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1999
- Interface
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1995
- Workers Leaving the Factory
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1995
- Videograms of a Revolution
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1992
- Images of the World and the Inscription of War
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1991
- The Double Face of Peter Lorre
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1984
- The Inextinguishable Fire
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1969
- Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1969
- Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1969
camera (2 credits)
- In Comparison
  
  still photographer
  
  camera
  
  2009
- The Creators of the Shopping Worlds
  
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  2001