Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki was born in 1944 in German-annexed Czechoslovakia. From 1966 to 1968 he attended the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). In addition to teaching posts in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Manila, Munich and Stuttgart, he has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Farocki has made close to 90 films, including three feature films, essay films and documentaries. He has worked in collaboration with other filmmakers as a scriptwriter, actor and producer. In 1976 he staged Heiner Müller's plays The Battle and Tractor together with Hanns Zischler in Basel, Switzerland.

Since 1966 he has written for numerous publications and from 1974 to 1984 he was editor and author of the magazine Filmkritik (München). His work has shown in many national and international exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums.

  

Titles by Harun Farocki:

Between Two Wars

The Creators of Shopping Worlds

Eye/Machine I

Eye/Machine II

Eye/Machine III

I Thought I was Seeing Convicts

An Image

Inextinguishable Fire

Interface

Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet at Work on Franz Kafka's "Amerika"

Nothing Ventured

Still Life

War at a Distance

Workers Leaving the Factory


Work by Harun Farocki also appears on:

Compilation: Eye/Machine I, II and III