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
  • 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
  • 1979
    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life (1979)

    The Taste of Life

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    For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you could see young people standing with their bicycles on street corners, in fact, if the bicycles where t...

    The Taste of Life
  • 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
  • 2001
    The Creators of the Shopping Worlds

    The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001)

    The Creators of the Shopping Worlds

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

    The Creators of the Shopping Worlds
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1993
    A Day in the Life of a Consumer

    A Day in the Life of a Consumer (1993)

    A Day in the Life of a Consumer

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    The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials are made of, the little dramas that they create and solve through the product or service they sell, ar...

    A Day in the Life of a Consumer
  • 2010
    Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow

    Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow (2010)

    Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow

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    An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In A Sun With No Shadow, Farocki calls attention to the subtle differences between the simulations for combat training and PTSD. With the former, the sun c...

    Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow
  • 1978
    Between Two Wars

    Between Two Wars (1978)

    Between Two Wars

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    A film about the time of the blast furnaces – 1917–1933 – about the development of an industry, about perfect machinery which had to run itself to the point of its own destruction....

    Between Two Wars
  • 1999
    Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe

    Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe (1999)

    Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe

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    Documentary about the german police force....

    Deutsche Polizisten: Viele Kulturen - eine Truppe
  • 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
  • 2016
    EXPRMNTL

    EXPRMNTL (2016)

    EXPRMNTL

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    Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second ‘World Festival of Film and the Arts’ in 1949, organised in part by the Royal Cinematheque of Belgium. To celeb...

    EXPRMNTL
  • 1993
    Navy Cut

    Navy Cut (1993)

    Navy Cut

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    Film by Wolfgang Schmidt....

    Navy Cut
  • 2010
    Serious Games 2 – Three Dead

    Serious Games 2 – Three Dead (2010)

    Serious Games 2 – Three Dead

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    An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Three Dead depicts a military exercise within a mock Iraqi town built on the outskirts of Twentynine Palms, California, blurring the line between computer ...

    Serious Games 2 – Three Dead