Catalogue des films de « Harun Farocki »

Three months in an architects’ firm in Berlin. From the architecture down to the tiniest door handle, a questioning of matter and the verb. Architects at work: a priori nothing lends itself better to cinema, nothing is more graphic than shots...

"For a whole year, Harun Farocki follows the meetings of Quickborner Team (QT), a Hamburg-based consulting firm that is developing a new “product”. The time of fixed, personalised offices is over. Welcome to the firms whose 80,000 square...

Bricks are the resonating fundamentals of society. Bricks are layers of clay that sound, like records just simply too thick. Like records they appear in series, but every brick is slightly different not just another brick in the wall. Bricks...

"Respite" exhumes the rushes of an unfinished film shot at the Westerbork camp (Netherlands) in 1944 on the orders of the Nazi command. In an approach opposite to the televisual transformations of these archives, the film digs into the infinite...

What venture capital or VC for short actually means is explained the film itself. Banks only lend money against collateral. Those who have none have to turn to VC companies and pay interest of 40%. At least we had filmed scenes at a wide range of...

Harun Farocki continues his methodical investigation into the links between industrial production and new war technology. As usual, he uses existing images: on one hand, archive footage that shows the motions of alienated work; on the other,...

Shopping is an everyday cultural act; it is inevitable, taken for granted. Entering into the world of shopping - the world of shopping malls - can be a Dantean voyage into hell or a redeeming ceremony of Communion. Everyone is familiar with this...

"Images from the maximum security prison in Corcoran, California. The surveillance camera shows a pie shaped section of a concrete courtyard where the prisoners are allowed to spend about half an hour a day in shorts and usually shirtless. One...

"A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new control technologies, at personal identification devices, electronic ankle bracelets, electronic...

According to Harun Farocki, today's photographers working in advertising are, in a way, continuing the tradition of 17th century Flemish painters in that they depict objects from everyday life - the "still life". The filmmaker illustrates this...