Films by Harun Farocki

Germany 2013, 37 min
by Harun Farocki

At first glance, A NEW PRODUCT doesn’t seem especially compelling: in a bland corporate boardroom, executives and consultants talk about optimizing employees’ workspace in order to improve productivity. Boring? Think again. Harun Farocki, the master essayist and editor, transforms a mundane situation into theatre of the absurd, blessed with acerbic wit and a sharp critical sense. By filming what appears to be the dullest possible thing, he has created a subtle report from a world whose violent m

Germany 2009
by Harun Farocki

“I would like to propose a film that contributes to the concept of work. That compares the work of a traditional society, like in Africa, in an early industrial society such as India, and in a highly developed industrial society, in Europe or Japan. The object of comparison is to be the work in building houses. Houses to live in.” This was written in Harun Farocki’s exposé from 2003 for a documentary project. “After initial research - I had the idea of using the brick, its manufacture and its pr

Germany 1992, 107 min
by Harun Farocki

“Television is on our side! We have won!” This chronicle of the 1989 revolution in Romania is put together from live coverage by the state broadcaster TVR and video recorded by numerous amateurs. Harun Farocki and Romanian writer and director Andrei Ujica had access to 125 hours of material, from which they compiled a minute-by-minute account of the period from December 21st to the 25th. Seen from multiple perspectives, these videograms cover the rapid succession of events from Nicol