Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki

1944-01-09
70 (2014-07-30)
Neutitschein, Sudetenland

Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.

Neutitschein, Sudetenland

Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.

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Videograms of a Revolution 1992 (7.8)

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 Romanian Revolution.
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The Inextinguishable Fire 1969 (6.2)

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.
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Images of the World and the Inscription of War 1991 (6.5)

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 phenomena including aerial reconnaissance photos of the Auschwitz concentration camp.