Harun Farocki

Personal Info

Known For Directing

Known Credits 115

Gender Male

Birthday 1944-01-09

Day of Death 2014-07-30 (70 years old)

Place of Birth Neutitschein, Sudetenland

Also Known As

Rosa Mercedes
Mercedes Rossa

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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

—

… Director

2020

… Director

2014

… Director

2013

… Director

2012

… Director

2010		The Silver and the Cross … Director
2010		Serious Games 1–4 … Director

2009

… Director

2008

… Director

2007		Übertragung … Director
2007		Comparison via a Third … Director
2007		Respite … Director
2007		Deep Play … Director
2007		Memories … Director

2006		On Construction of Griffith’s Films … Director
2006		Dubbing … Director

2005		A Way … Director
2005		Aufstellung … Director

2004		Nothing Ventured … Director
2004		Counter-Music … Director

2003		War at a Distance … Director
2003		Eye / Machine III … Director

2002

… Director

2001		The Creators of the Shopping Worlds … Director
2001		Eye / Machine I … Director

2000		Prison Images … Director
2000		I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts … Director

1998

… Director

1997		The Expression of Hands … Director
1997		Still Life … Director
1997		The Interview … Director

1996

… Director

1995		Interface … Director
1995		Workers Leaving the Factory … Director

1994		The Leading Role … Director
1994		Re-education … Director

1993

… Director

1992

… Director

1991		Images of the World and the Inscription of War … Director
1991		What’s Up? … Director

1990		Kinostadt Paris … Director
1990		How to Live in the German Federal Republic … Director

1989

… Director

1988

… Director

1987

… Director

1986		Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser … Director
1986		Filmbooks … Director
1986		As You See … Director

1985		Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède … Director
1985		Betrayed … Director

1984

… Director

1983		Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika … Director
1983		An Image … Director

1982		Filme von Peter Weiss … Director
1982		Before Your Eyes - Vietnam … Director

1980

… Director

1979		Zur Ansicht: Peter Weiss … Director
1979		The Taste of Life … Director
1979		Industry and Photography … Director

1978		Between Two Wars … Director
1978		A Picture of Sarah Schumann … Director

1977		Bedtime Stories: Cat … Director
1977		Bedtime Stories: Railways … Director
1977		Bedtime Stories: Bridges … Director
1977		Bedtime Stories: Ships … Director

1975		About Narration … Director
1975		About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright … Director

1973		Make Up … Director
1973		The Trouble with Images. A Critique of Television … Director
1973		Einmal wirst auch du mich lieben. Über die Bedeutung von Heftromanen … Director

1972

… Director

1971

… Director

1970

… Director

1969		The Inextinguishable Fire … Director
1969		Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets … Director
1969		Untitled or: Nixon comes to Berlin … Director

1968		Untitled or: The Wandering Cinema for Engineering Students … Director
1968		Three Shots at Rudi … Director
1968		Their Newspapers … Director
1968		White Christmas … Director

1967		The Words of the Chairman … Director
1967		The Campaign Volunteer … Director

1966		Everybody a Berliner Kindl … Director
1966		Two Paths … Director

Writing

2014

… Co-Writer

2012		A New Product … Writer
2012		Barbara … Writer

2009

… Writer

2007		Yella … Script Editor
2007		Respite … Writer
2007		Memories … Story

2005

… Screenplay

2004

… Screenplay

2003		War at a Distance … Screenplay
2003		Eye / Machine III … Screenplay

2002

… Screenplay

2001		The Creators of the Shopping Worlds … Writer
2001		The State I Am In … Writer
2001		Eye / Machine I … Screenplay

2000		Prison Images … Screenplay
2000		I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts … Screenplay

1998		What Farocki Taught … Writer
1998		Words and Games … Screenplay

1997		The Expression of Hands … Writer
1997		Still Life … Writer

1996

… Screenplay

1995		Pilots … Script Editor
1995		Workers Leaving the Factory … Writer

1994

… Writer

1992		Videograms of a Revolution … Writer
1992		The Warm Money … Script Editor

1991

… Writer

1988

… Writer

1986		Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser … Writer
1986		As You See … Writer

1979

… Writer

1978		Between Two Wars … Writer
1978		A Picture of Sarah Schumann … Writer

1975		Auf Biegen oder Brechen … Screenplay
1975		About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright … Writer

1973

… Writer

1971

… Writer

1969		Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets … Writer
1969		Untitled or: Nixon comes to Berlin … Writer

1968		Their Newspapers … Writer
1968		White Christmas … Screenplay

1967		The Words of the Chairman … Writer
1967		The Campaign Volunteer … Screenplay

1966		Everybody a Berliner Kindl … Writer
1966		Two Paths … Writer

Acting

—		Straub/Huillet: Arbeiten zu "Klassenverhältnisse"
—		Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki

2015

as (archive material)

2014

as Harun Farocki

2005		Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki as Self
2005		Who is Helene Schwarz?

2002

1995		Interface
1995		Workers Leaving the Factory as Narrador

1993

1991

as Self (uncredited)

1988

1986

1984

as Delamarche

1983

1981

as Self

1980

1979

1978		Cinématon as N°1068
1978		Between Two Wars
1978		"Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec. as Film director
1978		A Picture of Sarah Schumann as Self / Interviewer

1975		About Narration
1975		About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright as (voice)
1975		Kampf um ein Kind

1971

1970		Die Teilung aller Tage
1970		Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

1969

1968

1967

1964

(1 episode) as Self

Production

2009

… Producer

2007		Respite … Producer
2007		Memories … Producer

2006

… Producer

1995

… Producer

1992

… Producer

1991

… Producer

1969		Instructions on how to Pull off Police Helmets … Producer
1969		Untitled or: Nixon comes to Berlin … Producer

Editing

2012

… Editor

2007

… Editor

1997

… Editor

1991

… Editor

1969

… Editor

1968		Their Newspapers … Editor
1968		White Christmas … Editor

Crew

2015

… Dramaturgy

2005

… Dramaturgy

1980

… Script

Camera

2009

… Still Photographer

Personal Info

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Harun Farocki

Biography

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Writing

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