Direction: Harun Farocki

Direction Harun Farocki

Cast Ulrike Grote

Synopsis This "high-compression collage" by Harun Farocki delves into an unsettling incident in history. In 1944, U.S. planes flew over and photographed Auschwitz, but the pictures remained undiscovered until the 1970s. Using seemingly unrelated footage with historical film, Farocki delivers a...

Direction Harun Farocki · Andrei Ujica

Direction Harun Farocki

Cast Harun Farocki

Direction Harun Farocki

Direction Harun Farocki

Direction Harun Farocki

Direction Harun Farocki

Synopsis Respite consists of silent black-and-white film shot at Westerbork, a Dutch refugee camp established in 1939 for Jews fleeing Germany. In 1942, after the occupation of Holland, its function was reversed by the Nazis and it became a 'transit camp.'...

Direction Harun Farocki

Cast Gerd Volker Bussäus · Harun Farocki · Caroline Gremm · Hanspeter Krüger

Direction Harun Farocki

Synopsis Bricks are manufacured in Africa, India and Europe and used to erect clinics, children’s homes, schools and residential buildings. Harun Farocki observed the different steps of the manufacturing process. Bricks are cast, fired or pressed by hands, machines or robots....

Direction Harun Farocki

Cast Kaja Silverman

Direction Harun Farocki

Cast Matthias Sauerbruch · Louisa Hutton

Synopsis Harun Farocki’s last film before his untimely death this year is a compelling and often humorous study of an architectural firm in Berlin, following partners Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton. The film gives a perspective on architects and designers at...

Direction Harun Farocki

Cast Ursula Lefkes · Otto Schily

Direction Harun Farocki

Synopsis What happens when computer-generated video game images usurp film as the predominant medium of visual world-making? Harun Farocki’s four-part Parallel I–IV (2012–14) takes up this question tracing how video games have developed from two-dimensional schematics to photorealistic environments.

Direction Harun Farocki

Direction Harun Farocki

Synopsis "War always finds a way" (Brecht). If there is a relationship between production and destruction, between the development of productive and destructive forces, then the atom bomb is the ultimate weapon of the post-industrial age. Greatest tonnage, highest mortality, maximum...

Direction Harun Farocki

Direction Harun Farocki

Synopsis A look at how mall producers design malls in order to maximise traffic and sales.

Direction Harun Farocki

Direction Carlos Bustamante · Gerd Conradt · Harun Farocki · Holger Meins

Cast Thomas Giefer · Thomas Mitscherlich · Rüdiger Minow · Kai Ehlers

Synopsis A red flag is carried in the middle of the busy Berlin streets in a relay race through the city. The relay race, in which a total of 15 people are involved, begins in the Schloßstraße in the Berlin district...

Direction Harun Farocki