Harun Farocki
Directing • AGE 70
Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.
Filmography
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
About Narration
2025
The Words of the Chairman
Director
2025
Confusion
Director
2017
EXPRMNTL
Himself
2016
As If We Were Somebody Else
Dramaturgy
2015
A German Youth
Self (archive footage)
2015
Phoenix
Co-Writer
2014
Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).
Harun Farocki
2014
Parallel I–IV
Director
2014
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
Director
2013
A New Product
Editor
2012
Barbara
Writer
2012
Serious Games 1–4
Director
2011
Serious Games 2 – Three Dead
Director
2010
Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow
Director
2010
Serious Games 3 – Immersion
Director
2010
Serious Games 1 – "Watson Is Down"
Director
2010
The Silver and the Cross
Director
2010
In Comparison
Director
2009
Übertragung
Director
2007
Yella
Script Editor
2007
Memories
Director
2007
Comparison via a Third
Director
2007
Respite
Director
2007
Deep Play
Director
2007
Am Rand der Städte
Producer
2006
Palette revisited
2005
Ghosts
Screenplay
2005
Aufstellung
Director
2005
Nothing Ventured
Screenplay
2004
Counter-Music
Director
2004
Kulturplatz
Self
2004
War at a Distance
Screenplay
2003
Eye / Machine III
Director
2003
Eye / Machine II
Screenplay
2002
The Creators of the Shopping Worlds
Director
2001
The State I Am In
Writer
2001
Eye / Machine I
Director
2001
I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts
Screenplay
2000
Prison Images
Director
2000
Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe
Producer
1999
Words and Games
Screenplay
1998
The Expression of Hands
1997
Still Life
Writer
1997
Cuba Libre
Screenplay
1996
The Appearance
Director
1996
Interface
Self
1995
Pilots
Script Editor
1995
Workers Leaving the Factory
Narrador
1995
The Leading Role
Director
1994
A Day in the Life of a Consumer
Director
1993
Camera and Reality
Director
1992
Videograms of a Revolution
Director
1992
The Warm Money
Script Editor
1992
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Self (uncredited)
1991
How to Live in the German Federal Republic
Director
1990
Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith
Self
1988
Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen
Director
1987
Indoctrination
Director
1987
As You See
Director
1986
Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser
1986
Filmbooks
Director
1986
Betrayed
Director
1985
The Double Face of Peter Lorre
Director
1984
Class Relations
Delamarche
1984
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
1983
An Image
Director
1983
Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"
1983
Before Your Eyes - Vietnam
Director
1982
"Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics
Self
1981
The Taste of Life
Director
1979
Industry and Photography
Director
1979
Cinématon
N°1068
1978
Between Two Wars
1978
A Picture of Sarah Schumann
Self / Interviewer
1978
Bedtime Stories: Ships
Director
1977
Bedtime Stories: Railways
Director
1977
Bedtime Stories: Bridges
Director
1977
Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)
1976
Bent or Broken
Screenplay
1975
About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright
(voice)
1975
Kampf um ein Kind
1975
Brunner ist dran
Director
1973
The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television
Director
1973
Something Self Explanatory (15x)
1971
Die Teilung aller Tage
1970
The Inextinguishable Fire
1969
Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets
Editor
1969
Untitled or: Nixon Comes to Berlin
Writer
1969
Their Newspapers
1968
Break the Power of the Manipulators
1968
White Christmas
Writer
1968
3000 Houses
1967
The Campaign Volunteer
Screenplay
1967
Everybody a Berliner Kindl
Director
1966
Two Paths
Writer
1966