Movies: Harun Farocki

  • 2012
    Barbara

    Barbara (2012)

    Barbara

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    In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially fro...

    Barbara
  • 2014
    Phoenix

    Phoenix (2014)

    Phoenix

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    German-Jewish cabaret singer Nelly survived Auschwitz but had to undergo reconstructive surgery as her face was disfigured. Without recognizing Nelly, her former husband Johnny asks her to help him claim his wife’s inheritance. To see if he betrayed ...

    Phoenix
  • 2007
    Yella

    Yella (2007)

    Yella

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    A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon catches up with her....

    Yella
  • 1978
    Cinématon

    Cinématon (1978)

    Cinématon

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    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...

    Cinématon
  • 2001
    The State I Am In

    The State I Am In (2001)

    The State I Am In

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    Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach....

    The State I Am In
  • 2005
    Ghosts

    Ghosts (2005)

    Ghosts

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    Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of ...

    Ghosts
  • 2015
    A German Youth

    A German Youth (2015)

    A German Youth

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    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...

    A German Youth
  • 1991
    Images of the World and the Inscription of War

    Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991)

    Images of the World and the Inscription of War

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    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 p...

    Images of the World and the Inscription of War
  • 1992
    Videograms of a Revolution

    Videograms of a Revolution (1992)

    Videograms of a Revolution

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    Videograms of a Revolution is a 1992 documentary film compiled by Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică from over 125 hours of amateur footage, news footage, and excerpts from the Bucharest TV studio overtaken by demonstrators as part of the December 1989 R...

    Videograms of a Revolution
  • 1985
    Betrayed

    Betrayed (1985)

    Betrayed

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    A “film-noir” on double identity and role reversal. A man is looking for a woman to love. He finds her in a seedy bar and persuades her to marry him. The day she decides to flee… he kills her. To ward off suspicion, he moves in with the sister of the...

    Betrayed
  • 1975
    Kampf um ein Kind

    Kampf um ein Kind (1975)

    Kampf um ein Kind

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    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 an...

    Kampf um ein Kind
  • 1995
    Pilots

    Pilots (1995)

    Pilots

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    Drifters tells of Karin, a past-her-prime cosmetics saleswoman, with her increasing exasperation with her life and her dreams of leaving it all behind and living in Paris. An unlikely but entertaining plot develops, where anything can happen....

    Pilots
  • 2009
    In Comparison

    In Comparison (2009)

    In Comparison

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    In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director's 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Spanning continents and cultures, the film focuses on the brick in its many contexts, from the collective efforts of a community building a...

    In Comparison
  • 1969
    The Inextinguishable Fire

    The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)

    The Inextinguishable Fire

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    An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm....

    The Inextinguishable Fire
  • 1984
    Class Relations

    Class Relations (1984)

    Class Relations

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    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....

    Class Relations
  • 2005
    Who is Helene Schwarz?

    Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)

    Who is Helene Schwarz?

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    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 is Helene Schwarz?
  • 1978

    "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec. (1978)

    "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.

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    Essay film about Franz Kafka's novel "Amerika"....

  • 2002
    Starbuck Holger Meins

    Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)

    Starbuck Holger Meins

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    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 circ...

    Starbuck Holger Meins
  • 1983
    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983)

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika

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    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....

    Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
  • 1970
    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (1970)

    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)

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    Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)