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.

Known For

Kulturplatz

Cinématon

3000 Houses

A German Youth

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

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

Class Relations

Kampf um ein Kind

All Movies (41)

• Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas2026 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• About Narration2025
• EXPRMNTL2016 · as Himself
• A German Youth2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• Harun, who only drinks beer, has a glass of wine (2011).2014 · as Harun Farocki
• Palette revisited2005
• Documentary filmmaking: Christoph Hübner talks with Harun Farocki2005 · as Self
• Who is Helene Schwarz?2005 · as Self
• Starbuck Holger Meins2002 · as Self
• The Expression of Hands1997
• Interface1995 · as Self
• Workers Leaving the Factory1995 · as Narrador
• Navy Cut1993
• Images of the World and the Inscription of War1991 · as Self (uncredited)
• Georg K. Glaser – Writer and Smith1988 · as Self
• Schlagworte – Schlagbilder. Ein Gespräch mit Vilém Flusser1986
• Class Relations1984 · as Delamarche
• Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika1983
• Straub/Huillet: Work on "Class Relations"1983
• Filme von Peter Weiss1982 · as Self
• "Kino 81" - Stillness, a film magazine by film critics1981 · as Self
• Zeit der langen Nächte1981 · as Günter
• Henry Angst1980
• Putting Things Straight1979
• Cinématon1978 · as N°1068
• Between Two Wars1978
• "Amerika" vor Augen oder Kafka in 43 Min. 30 Sec.1978 · as Film director
• A Picture of Sarah Schumann1978 · as Self / Interviewer
• Es stirbt allerdings ein jeder, fragt sich nur wie und wie Du gelebt hast (Holger Meins)1976
• About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright1975 · as (voice)
• Kampf um ein Kind1975
• Something Self Explanatory (15x)1971
• Die Teilung aller Tage1970
• Zum Begriff des 'kritischen Kommunismus' bei Antonio Labriola (1843-1904)1970
• Wochenschau I: Requiem für eine Firma1969
• The Inextinguishable Fire1969
• Their Newspapers1968
• Break the Power of the Manipulators1968
• 3000 Houses1967
• Farocki dreht1967
• Cinématon n°1068 : Harun Farocki—

All TV Shows (2)

• Kulturplatz2004 · as Self
• Grimme Award1964 · as Self