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.

Directed

1. Videograms of a Revolution (1992) — Director
2. The Inextinguishable Fire (1969) — Director
3. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991) — Director
4. An Image (1983) — Director
5. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983) — Director
6. Prison Images (2000) — Director
7. Respite (2007) — Director
8. Still Life (1997) — Director
9. How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1990) — Director
10. Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) — Director
11. I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts (2000) — Director
12. The Expression of Hands (1997) — Director
13. Between Two Wars (1978) — Director
14. As You See (1986) — Director
15. Memories (2007) — Director
16. War at a Distance (2003) — Director
17. A Day in the Life of a Consumer (1993) — Director
18. The Appearance (1996) — Director
19. Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser (1986) — Director
20. In Comparison (2009) — Director
21. Nothing Ventured (2004) — Director
22. Words and Games (1998) — Director
23. The Creators of the Shopping Worlds (2001) — Director
24. A New Product (2012) — Director
25. The Interview (1997) — Director
26. Interface (1995) — Director
27. The Double Face of Peter Lorre (1984) — Director
28. Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith (1988) — Director
29. Film-Tip: Le thé au harem d’Archimède (1985) — Director
30. Übertragung (2007) — Director
31. White Christmas (1968) — Director
32. Their Newspapers (1968) — Director
33. Eye / Machine III (2003) — Director
34. Eye / Machine I (2001) — Director
35. Aufstellung (2005) — Director
36. Eye / Machine II (2002) — Director
37. Single. A Record is Being Produced (2025) — Director
38. The Leading Role (1994) — Director
39. Before Your Eyes - Vietnam (1982) — Director
40. Betrayed (1985) — Director

Also appeared in

1. A German Youth (2015) — Self (archive footage)
2. The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)
3. Class Relations (1984) — Delamarche
4. Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1991) — Self (uncredited)
5. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika (1983)
6. Cinématon (1978) — N°1068
7. Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) — Narrador
8. Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins) (1976)
9. Between Two Wars (1978)
10. The Expression of Hands (1997)
11. Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser (1986)
12. Interface (1995) — Self
13. Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith (1988) — Self
14. Starbuck Holger Meins (2002) — Self
15. Their Newspapers (1968)
16. A Picture of Sarah Schumann (1978) — Self / Interviewer
17. Kampf um ein Kind (1975)
18. Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005) — Self
19. "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec. (1978) — Film director
20. Henry Angst (1980)
21. About Narration (2025)
22. Something Self Explanatory (15x) (1971)
23. Kulturplatz (2004) — Self
24. Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011). (2014) — Harun Farocki
25. Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki (2005) — Self
26. Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations" (1983)
27. About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright (1975) — (voice)
28. Palette revisited (2005)
29. Filme von Peter Weiss (1982) — Self
30. Farocki dreht (1967)
31. 3000 Houses (1967)
32. Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904) (1970)
33. Navy Cut (1993)
34. Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma (1969)
35. "Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics (1981) — Self
36. Die Teilung aller Tage (1970)
37. Putting Things Straight (1979)
38. Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki
39. EXPRMNTL (2016) — Himself
40. Break the Power of the Manipulators (1968)